This Well Owner’s Guide to Water Supply was written to assist you to learn more about a topic of the utmost importance—your drinking water. Gaining a better understanding about your well, its components and their maintenance, well upkeep, geology, and water quality, will ultimately empower you, the well owner, to be able to better maintain and monitor your well and your water supply.
Carefully monitoring and keeping a detailed record of any maintenance done on your well, and any water tests conducted, can help you prevent future problems from occurring and to insure safe drinking water For example, noting a rapid turning on/off of your well pump may indicate a lowered water table Knowing which contaminants may be present in your well water will help you choose the best water treatment.
As a private well owner, you are responsible for the upkeep of your well and the quality of water it produces While a loan provider or real estate company may require a water quality test, there are no federal or state laws that require a well owner to have their well tested This means that while public water systems must meet certain water quality standards in order to provide safe, potable drinking water for their customers, well owners are solely responsible for testing their water, in order to protect the health of anyone who drinks it.
- Section 1: Introduction to well ownership and an overview of contaminants of concern
- Section 2: Arizona water sources
- Section 3: Arizona geology
- Section 4: Aquifers
- Section 5: Well operation and maintenance
- Section 6: Well yield
- Section 7: Drinking water guidelines and standards
- Section 8: Testing well water quality
- Section 9: Water treatment options
- Section 10: Protecting your well water quality