About

Made for the water no one else checks.

Roughly one in seven US households drinks from a private well. Unlike a public water system, a private well has no one testing it, no one reporting results, and no legal standard it has to meet. The owner is the water utility. Most owners never signed up for that job.

The problem we set out to fix

When people worry about their well, the usual advice is "get it tested." But tested for what? A lab will happily run a full panel for a few hundred dollars, most of which is irrelevant to your area. Or you test only for bacteria, because that's what the driller did, and miss the arsenic in your bedrock entirely. The missing piece is direction: which of the dozens of possible contaminants actually matter where you live.

That's the whole point of this report. We take your address, look at what's known about the wells and geology around it, and hand back a short, ordered list of what to test for first. It turns an open-ended worry into a to-do list you can act on in an afternoon.

What we are, and what we are not

We are a way to read public data about your area and turn it into a plain-English plan. We are not a laboratory, and we never measure your actual water. We say this everywhere because it's the honest line and because confusing the two would be dangerous: only a certified lab test tells you what is really in your well. Our job is to make sure you order the right test.

Everything we use is public and cited: the USGS domestic-wells program for what turns up in private wells, and the EPA's drinking water standards for the limits. You can check every figure. See how the model works and the sources behind it.

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