Reading & References
- Drinking Water Quality: Your Private Well: What Do the Results Mean?
- The goal of this document, published by the Water Research Center, is to help educate and inform citizens on issues relate to water conservation, drinking water standards, drinking water contaminants, drinking water testing, certified water testing, chain-of-custody, baseline testing, and interpretation of water quality data. Copies may also be found at the Bucks County Planning Department and Solebury Township administration lobby.
- The Care and Feeding of Your Well
- Page 68 on the care and feeding of your private well is good common sense and helpful.
- Penn State Extension: Water
- Penn State Extension delivers quality education and programs in five primary areas: drinking and residential water, pond management, stormwater management, wastewater management, and water for agriculture.
- Penn State Extension: Wells, Springs & Cisterns
- Penn State Extension has many written and video resources to help with the proper management of private water wells, springs and cisterns.
- EPA Water Topics
- When the water in our rivers, lakes, and oceans becomes polluted, it can endanger wildlife, make our drinking water unsafe, and threaten the waters where we swim and fish. EPA research supports efforts under the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act.