Maine’s seller disclosure asks for the date of the last water test. In a second dry year, that date may not describe the water anymore. What partners should tell clients.
Extreme drought has reached the Midcoast. Here is how salt can creep into a coastal well, what sodium and chloride numbers mean, and when a test makes sense.
Well yield and water quality are two different tests measuring two different things. Here’s what Maine home inspectors and treatment providers should know before a low-producing well gets treated like
Maine’s second dry fall in a row is pushing well-replacement quotes toward $20,000. Here’s how to tell whether your well needs a driller or just a water test.
Maine drought means well work, and well work means shock chlorination. Why the first bacteria sample after a shock can read clean and mean nothing, and how partners collect a
On a private well, lead comes from your own plumbing, not the bedrock. A flushed sample hides it. Here is why the first draw is the one that answers the
Two well reports, three years apart, and the arsenic moved. How Maine partners should compare results: units, reporting limits, and what actually shifts.
Forty Maine wells are reported dry as of September 3. What to drink while yours is down, why delivered water never goes in the well, and the test to run
Maine’s Drought Task Force met September 3 with 74 percent of the state in drought. Here is how inspectors, treatment providers and property managers should collect a well water sample
Maine recommends testing after a treatment system goes in, and almost nobody does. What a raw and treated sample pair tells you, and how often to run it.
