A live feed of private-well contamination news (PFAS, nitrates, arsenic, lead, bacteria, flooding), weather, rainfall and flood or boil-water alerts for top private-well states. This page updates itself.
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An Iowa investigation found sparse private-well nitrate testing even as public-system detections rose — and noted infants face the highest risk.
Nearly one in eight private wells in a southeast Minnesota monitoring network still exceeded the 10 mg/L nitrate drinking-water standard in 2025.
WHYY reports the Penn State findings and notes that more than a million Pennsylvania households rely on unregulated private wells.
After major Texas flooding, Extension urged submerged-well owners to assume contamination and offered free bacteria and E. coli screening.
A three-year citizen-science study of 167 Pennsylvania private wells found PFAS in 65%, with 18% above at least one EPA drinking-water standard.
A Massachusetts private well tested above 500 ppt for PFAS6 — more than 20 times the state public-water limit — prompting a board of health notice.
Wisconsin notified dozens more Peshtigo homes that private wells exceeded new PFAS health recommendations tied to firefighting-foam pollution.
Maine households shared private-well tests showing PFAS above EPA’s 4 ppt public-water limit — a limit that does not cover private wells.
EPA ordered Minnesota to notify and protect residents with nitrate-contaminated private wells in the karst region — a landscape that also stretches into Iowa.
EPA deployed mobile labs in western North Carolina and urged flooded-well owners to test for total coliform and E. coli before drinking.
Early EPA sampling after Hurricane Helene found roughly 40% of about 600 tested private wells positive for E. coli or coliform bacteria.
About 43 million Americans rely on private wells that sit outside federal drinking-water rules — testing and treatment fall to the household.
Pueblo County health testing found private wells in two zip codes with PFAS far above levels typically enforced for city water supplies.
North Carolina DEQ alerted Hope Mills-area well owners that PFAS levels exceeded EPA guidelines and offered treatment assistance.
USGS estimated 2.7 million private-well users face arsenic above EPA’s standard in normal conditions — rising to 4.1 million during drought.
A Reuters investigation found corrosive private-well water can leach lead from household plumbing — with no federal lead standard for private wells.
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