Abstract
The City of Hutchinson designed seven sites with a total area of 512,000 ft to search for abandoned brine wells after the City researched literature of the salt mining history in Hutchinson area. A high-resolution magnetic survey was conducted on these seven sites in May 2002. Twenty-three anomalies were verified by excavation with a backhoe, of which are five were identified as brine wells, four as suspected brine wells, one probable water well, and one probable gas pipe. A monopole anomaly with more than 12,000 nanoteslas in amplitude is a basic criterion to identify a well with an 8-inch metal case. A monopole anomaly with several thousand nanoteslas in amplitude is a basic criterion to identify a 2.5-inch or 4-inch well. The high-resolution magnetic method with theodolite-defined grids was successful in locating the abandoned brine wells in the City of Hutchinson, Kansas.
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