Orange Residents Urged To Test Well Water

From CT DHP: As part of National Groundwater Awareness Week, the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) is reminding Connecticut residents with private wells to consider testing their wells to ensure safe water quality. Water plays an essential role in everyone’s life.

Approximately 40% of Orange residents (approximately 1,890 homes) rely on a private well as
the source of their household water. Spring is a good season for an annual well water checkup before peak water use season begins. Proper maintenance of a well water system is essential to protecting water quality. Private well owners should consider taking a few steps to inspect their wells for structural problems, protect from contamination, have your well-head above grade, and most importantly, test for water quality.

The Orange Health Department also recommends having your well water tested, at least once, for “total petroleum hydrocarbons” using the ETPH method. Petroleum may leach through soils to aquifers from leaking underground oil tanks. https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/Departments-and- Agencies/DPH/dph/environmental_health/private_wells/2018-Downloads/061218-24-private- well-testing.pdf?la=en

For more information and resources on well inspection, testing, contaminants, and treatment options, please visit DPH’s Private Well Program website at:
https://portal.ct.gov/dph/Envi... You may also contact the Orange Health Department for handouts, a list of approved laboratories, and e-mailed copies of well water resources. Call: 203-891-4719 or E-mail: Lromick@orange-ct.gov.

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