Water Testing CT: Ensure Fresh Clean Drinking Water From Your Private Well. Your water test may have revealed that your water was ideal to drink when you purchased you home so you felt safe after you moved in. An advantage to well water is you’ll enjoy fresh, clean water, unconnected to the issues, hassles and potential additives of municipals supplies.
But to keep it that way you need to test annually, and be sure that activities on or surrounding your groundwater don’t turn your clean water into contaminated water. The EPA recommends:
- Periodically inspect exposed parts of the well for problems such as: cracked, corroded, or damaged well casing, broken or missing well caps, settling and cracking of surface seals.
- Slope the area around the well to drain surface runoff away from the well.
- Install a well cap or sanitary seal to prevent unauthorized use of, or entry into, the well.
- Have the well tested once a year for coliform bacteria, nitrates, and other constituents of concern.
- Keep accurate records of any well maintenance, such as disinfection or sediment removal, that may require the use of chemicals in the well.
- Hire a certified well driller for any new well construction, modification, or abandonment and closure.
- Avoid mixing or using pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides, de-greasers, fuels, and other pollutants near the well.
- Do not dispose of wastes in dry wells or in abandoned wells.
- Do not cut off the well casing below the land surface.
- Pump and inspect septic systems as often as recommended by your local health department.
- Never dispose of harsh chemicals, solvents, petroleum products, or pesticides in a septic system or dry well.
Having a house with a well can be exciting. It can be one step closer to ensuring that you have a water supply that’s not infused with extra chemicals, fluoride, etc., and means that you’re immune from municipal water quality failures. But it also means that the problems you encounter are yours alone to discover and treat.
