New York Well Data · NYSDEC
NYSDEC well records, searchable by address
Every New York well log is filed with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation water well completion reports. Those records are public, but they are organized by mapped location and record number — not by street address. We hold 144,499 of them and rebuild the index weekly, so you can start from an address instead.
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Enter any New York address and we return the wells recorded around it — essentially every New York well record (over 99.9%) carries a mapped location, and the DEC describes those positions as accurate to the parcel - good enough to tell which property a well sits on, though not the exact spot in the yard. The records carry no street address, so wells are found by location rather than by house number.
Free address lookup Full property report — $29What a NYSDEC record contains
Not every filed report carries every field — older records are thinner, and what the state captured changed over the decades. This is the real coverage across all 144,499 records, so you know what to expect before you search.
| Field | What it tells you | Records with it | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Original log document | A direct link to the NYSDEC copy of the filed log itself. | 144,499 (100%) | |
| Mapped location | Coordinates, so the log can be found by address instead of by record number. | 144,498 (100%) | |
| Total depth | How deep the hole was drilled, in feet. | 142,780 (99%) | |
| Tested yield | Gallons per minute the well produced on the driller’s pump test. | 51,127 (35%) |
How this differs from going to DEC directly
Nothing here replaces the official record, and for a single well you already have the record number for, DEC is the place to go (dec.ny.gov/environmental-protection/water/water-quantity/water-well-contractor-program). What this site adds is the part that is hard from the source data:
- An address is enough. You do not need a record number, a section-township-range, or a latitude to start. Essentially every New York well record (over 99.9%) carries a mapped location, and the DEC describes those positions as accurate to the parcel - good enough to tell which property a well sits on, though not the exact spot in the yard. The records carry no street address, so wells are found by location rather than by house number.
- The neighbours, not just the well. Buyers and lenders care what depth and yield are normal nearby, which means reading many records at once, not one.
- The same statistics everywhere. Median depth, static water level and yield are computed identically in every county, so two counties can actually be compared. The exact filters are on the methodology page.
- The original is always one click away. 144,499 of our records carry a direct link to the NYSDEC copy of the filed log itself.
NYSDEC records by county
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Common questions
With NYSDEC — the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation water well completion reports. Every New York driller files a completion report there for each well drilled, and that filing is the authoritative copy of the record. The official site is dec.ny.gov/environmental-protection/water/water-quantity/water-well-contractor-program.
Not directly — well records are filed against a mapped location and a record number, not a mailing address, which is the single most common reason people give up on the search. That is exactly the gap this site fills: enter an address on our free lookup and we return the recorded wells around that point, essentially every New York well record (over 99.9%) carries a mapped location, and the DEC describes those positions as accurate to the parcel - good enough to tell which property a well sits on, though not the exact spot in the yard. The records carry no street address, so wells are found by location rather than by house number.
No, and it is not meant to be. This is an independent index built from the data DEC publishes, rebuilt weekly. Every well we show links back to its own NYSDEC record, so you can always open the original filed log. If our copy and the state's ever disagree, the state's is right.
Our current copy holds 144,499 records across 62 counties. That is everything NYSDEC publishes in its bulk record set as of 2026-08-19. Wells drilled before the state's filing requirement — and hand-dug or unpermitted wells — were never filed anywhere, so they are in neither copy.
Searching by address here is free, the same as searching NYSDEC is free. What we charge for is the compiled property report — every recorded well near one address, with the statistics and the original log links, as one printable document for a sale or a loan file. That is $29.
The property report pulls every recorded well near an address — depths, water levels, yields, drillers , and links to each original filed log — as one printable summary for due diligence.
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