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A healthy well is a wonderful asset! A family supplied by a private well has an excellent resource for providing fresh, clean water all year round. Private wells require some maintenance but there’s no reliance on city water systems, no bi-monthly bills and no disinfectants added to the pure water Nature provides.
On the other hand, there’s no one regulating the quality of your water except you, the owner. To help you with this task, the Environmental Protection Agency offers advice in the form of guidelines on the actions you should take to protect your water quality. That list is available here.
Among other recommendations from the EPA, they suggest annual testing of water quality plus additional testing when environmental conditions could result in contamination. For example, floods, lots of snowmelt, nearby construction, septic tank repair, and so on. If someone in your household is pregnant, if a baby arrives or if there are elderly residents, testing should happen more often or if illnesses occur.
In addition, on January 26, 2024, the EPA released an updated report titled Potential Well Water Contaminants and Their Impacts that may provide new insight for you on maintaining good well quality.
This year, there is increased focus and action on reducing PFAS in groundwater and wells. PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are a group of more than 9,000 chemicals used for the manufacture of clothing, non-stick cookware, food packaging, wires, cables, cosmetics, cleaning products and much more. While they began being used in 1946, awareness of the health problems they can cause has been increasing each year.
Widespread PFAS contamination of our groundwater has been associated with cancer, kidney disease, poor fertility, damage to the immune system, preeclampsia and pregnancy-related hypertension, liver disease, high cholesterol and Parkinson’s disease.
A few of the most dangerous PFAS stopped being manufactured in 2002 but new chemicals took their places. There are some signs that these new PFAS-type chemicals could be as dangerous or more dangerous than old ones. While our understanding of these chemicals grows, you should be testing your well for the presence of PFAS.
Primary sources of PFAS in groundwater are fire training sites, industrial sites, landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. In 2023, the EPA recommended new, lower limits for six PFAS but the recommendations have not yet been finalized and besides, there are thousands more PFAS in use. Monitor your well for PFAS and if you find these substances in your water, install a granular activated carbon filter or reverse osmosis system to remove them.
This year, September 5, 2024, is Protect Your Groundwater Day! This should be a reminder to well owners to test their water and inspect their property for any potential source of contaminants.
Included in the inspection list should be:
You should also take action to protect the zone around your well:
As you maintain the purity and health of your well, anytime you need water testing, choose ETR Labs for a fast, accurate test. Our Premium Water Test will check for 113 contaminants you don’t want in your water! Click on the link to order!
Last Friday night, during a torrential rainstorm, a 42-inch sewer force main near Haverhill’s main pumping station failed. The pipe, which carries wastewater from the city’s main pump station to its treatment plant, dates back to the 1970s.
On June 5, 2026, residents in nearly a dozen neighborhoods in Northwest Washington DC started noticing something wrong with their water pressure. DC Water received calls from customers experiencing low to no pressure at multiple locations at the same time the Fort Reno Pumping Station was experiencing fluctuating power issues, with a full loss of power hitting at around 12:30 p.m.
No state in America has perfectly clean tap water. That is not a dramatic claim. It is simply what the data shows. Based on EPA violation data, contaminant testing, and infrastructure assessments, the states with the most documented tap water problems in 2026 are Texas, California, New York, New Jersey, Florida, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Massachusetts. The most common problems across these states are PFAS, lead service lines, disinfection byproducts, arsenic, and nitrates.
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On June 5, 2026, residents in nearly a dozen neighborhoods in Northwest Washington DC started noticing something wrong with their water pressure. DC Water received calls from customers experiencing low to no pressure at multiple locations at the same time the Fort Reno Pumping Station was experiencing fluctuating power issues, with a full loss of power hitting at around 12:30 p.m.
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A healthy well is a wonderful asset! A family supplied by a private well has an excellent resource for providing fresh, clean water all year round. Private wells require some maintenance but there’s no reliance on city water systems, no bi-monthly bills and no disinfectants added to the pure water Nature provides.
On the other hand, there’s no one regulating the quality of your water except you, the owner. To help you with this task, the Environmental Protection Agency offers advice in the form of guidelines on the actions you should take to protect your water quality. That list is available here.
Among other recommendations from the EPA, they suggest annual testing of water quality plus additional testing when environmental conditions could result in contamination. For example, floods, lots of snowmelt, nearby construction, septic tank repair, and so on. If someone in your household is pregnant, if a baby arrives or if there are elderly residents, testing should happen more often or if illnesses occur.
In addition, on January 26, 2024, the EPA released an updated report titled Potential Well Water Contaminants and Their Impacts that may provide new insight for you on maintaining good well quality.
This year, there is increased focus and action on reducing PFAS in groundwater and wells. PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are a group of more than 9,000 chemicals used for the manufacture of clothing, non-stick cookware, food packaging, wires, cables, cosmetics, cleaning products and much more. While they began being used in 1946, awareness of the health problems they can cause has been increasing each year.
Widespread PFAS contamination of our groundwater has been associated with cancer, kidney disease, poor fertility, damage to the immune system, preeclampsia and pregnancy-related hypertension, liver disease, high cholesterol and Parkinson’s disease.
A few of the most dangerous PFAS stopped being manufactured in 2002 but new chemicals took their places. There are some signs that these new PFAS-type chemicals could be as dangerous or more dangerous than old ones. While our understanding of these chemicals grows, you should be testing your well for the presence of PFAS.
Primary sources of PFAS in groundwater are fire training sites, industrial sites, landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. In 2023, the EPA recommended new, lower limits for six PFAS but the recommendations have not yet been finalized and besides, there are thousands more PFAS in use. Monitor your well for PFAS and if you find these substances in your water, install a granular activated carbon filter or reverse osmosis system to remove them.
This year, September 5, 2024, is Protect Your Groundwater Day! This should be a reminder to well owners to test their water and inspect their property for any potential source of contaminants.
Included in the inspection list should be:
You should also take action to protect the zone around your well:
As you maintain the purity and health of your well, anytime you need water testing, choose ETR Labs for a fast, accurate test. Our Premium Water Test will check for 113 contaminants you don’t want in your water! Click on the link to order!
Related Post.
Last Friday night, during a torrential rainstorm, a 42-inch sewer force main near Haverhill’s main pumping station failed. The pipe,...
On June 5, 2026, residents in nearly a dozen neighborhoods in Northwest Washington DC started noticing something wrong with their...
No state in America has perfectly clean tap water. That is not a dramatic claim. It is simply what the...
