Water quality testing blog

• Eight states require testing at upgrade or maintenance of the well: Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Wisconsin. • Six states require testing at the initial pump installation: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Wisconsin. • Five states require testing when the pump is replaced: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, Wisconsin. • Three states require [...]

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The residents of Midland, Texas are battling well water contaminated with hexavalent chromium, a known human carcinogen. It’s the same carcinogen found in Hinkley, California’s water that environmental activist Erin Brockovich successfully fought. The potable water is testing at extremly high levels.   Here’s a link to the story and another link to the Daily Kos blog post. [...]

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The first water quality test kit that lives up to its name, The Complete Home Water Quality Test Kit (481199) tests 13 common water parameters for only $24.99!

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This month’s edition of Water Quality Products has an informative article about when, where and how to test well water. Written by Marianne Metzger with National Testing Labs, it should be required reading for anyone testing well water. Read Testing: Onsite, Laboratory or Both?

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Owning a well implies responsibility for the quality of the water coming from the well.  Water professionals suggest that well owners have their water tested by a certified laboratory at least once a year or any time a shift in taste, color or odor occurs.  That does NOT mean, however, that well owners ought to let their guard [...]

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Rachel Gallegos • Iowa City Press-Citizen • June 25, 2008 Residents whose drinking water comes from private wells should have their water tested if their wells were covered by or were close to flood water, according to a news release from the University of Iowa Hygienic Lab.The University Hygienic Lab distributed hundreds of water testing [...]

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