More than 2.5 million Pennsylvania residents rely on private wells for their drinking water. Yet these wells are not regulated, leaving homeowners to their own devices to test and treat their water.

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 ppm for nitrates. These nitrogen-based compounds, ...

Do you live in one of the more than one million homes and farms in Pennsylvania that get their drinking water from a private well or spring? Would you like to have your water tested for free? The ...

Allison Roderick, environmental health officer for Webster County, Iowa, draws a sample of well water from a home near Fort Dodge, Iowa. Roderick sends the samples to a lab to test for bacteria, ...

Allison Roderick has a warning and a pledge for rural residents of her county: The water from their wells could be contaminated, but the government can help make it safe. Roderick is the environmental ...

FORT DODGE, Iowa — Allison Roderick has a warning and a pledge for rural residents of her county: The water from their wells could be contaminated, but the government can help make it safe. Roderick ...

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CADOTT, Wis. (WI DNR NEWS RELEASE) - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced it will provide free well water testing for nitrate at Farm Technology Days in Cadott Aug.

Flooding from Hurricane Helene may have contaminated private wells for thousands of people in western North Carolina, and experts say residents should boil or test their water before drinking it, or ...

Unlike public drinking-water systems, the private wells that 500,000 Massachusetts residents rely on are entirely unregulated. Legislation on Beacon Hill would change that. Mary Brolin lives in ...

Phyllis Blackiston at her former home in Millsboro, Del., in July of 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover?