Preventive Maintenance

That’s unfortunate. Because, without proper preventive maintenance, a small, easily correctable problem can very quickly become a large, inconvenient, much more expensive problem.

Most people would agree that preventive water well maintenance is a good idea. However, those same people often fail to heed their own intuition and actually follow through on for their water well system.

Just remember – you have to drink the water that comes out of your well. So it’s not just the cost of preventive maintenance. It’s also a matter of health and safety.

Simple, Ongoing Steps To Maintain Your Well

In order to keep your well in top shape so that your family has clean, safe water to drink, you’ll need to maintain your well appropriately. A qualified, licensed or certified water well professional can make sure your well is serviced correctly.

Any source of drinking water should be checked whenever there is a change in the taste, odor or appearance of your water, or anytime the water supply system is serviced. Usually, an annual well maintenance check, including a bacterial test, is recommended.

Beyond professional maintenance, there are number things you should be aware of to maintain your well water quality and safety.

Be careful when working or mowing around your well. Any damage to the casing could affect your well’s sanitation, leaving you with potentially unclean and unsafe drinking water.

Never pile snow, leaves or other materials around your well and always keep hazardous chemicals, such as paint, fertilizer, pesticides and motor oil away from your well. Make sure that any chemical storage or waste systems are a safe distance from your well.

Of course, at some point, your well will come to the end of its serviceable life – typically after more than 20 years. When that day arrives, have a qualified water well contractor properly seal your well after constructing your new system.

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Regular water well maintenance is important. Knowing and practicing the basics of regular well maintenance can reduce risks to your water supply and prevent costly repairs following an inconvenient breakdown.

Now, the responsibility of maintaining your water falls on you. Or maybe you’ve relied on a water well most your life. Either way, you probably don’t have an owner’s manual that goes with your well. That’s fine, until something goes wrong and you need professional help. It’s at times like this that you’ll wish you knew some basics about water well system maintenance.

Water Well Maintenance

There’s a fantastic national organization whose express purpose is informing homeowners about groundwater and private water wells. It’s called the National Ground Water Association (NGWA). There’s little doubt they would recommend a homeowner using an owner’s manual in the first place to repair a private well.

In their publication … their very first tip is Don’t Try to Service Your Own Well, stating that: “When well owners try to service their own wells, they usually fail to solve the problem or make it worse.”

Eight Tips for Maintaining Your Well

We highly recommend you download and read this valuable PDF, Eight Tips for Maintaining Your Well, here.

On the other hand, the NGWA is a big proponent of preventive maintenance. They point out that it’s human nature to be penny wise and pound-foolish, particularly where privately owned water wells are concerned. The NGWA conducted a poll not too long ago, and the results confirmed what they expected: 80 percent of those responding had never had a water well maintenance inspection.

What often happens is that a small, easily correctable problem becomes a large, inconvenient, much more expensive problem. Treating your water well system this way would be like never having an auto mechanic look under the hood of your car until a catastrophic breakdown. Few people argue that preventive maintenance is unwise. The problem is that few people follow through on their own.

Don’t ignore Water Well Maintenance

In summary, it’s very common for a homeowner who has a private water well to ignore it. If it’s doing its job and plenty of fresh water is supplied to their home, they simply tend to ignore their well. The fact is that a lot of homeowners don’t know the first thing about their well, how to maintain it, what signs to look for to identify a potential problem, etc.

Here’s a simple recommendation: The operative term here is maintain. Do not attempt to repair a problem. If you have any problems, questions or desire one of qualified technicians to inspect your well, just give us a call.

1. Download the Eight Tips for Maintaining Your Well
2. Learn the basics about water well maintenance
3. Take some simple steps to maintain your well yourself

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