Having discussed my experience with different well screen designs in former columns, if you get the idea I’m a proponent of stainless steel or bronze wire wound screens, you are right. Actually, I’m not sure bronze or brass screens are available anymore. I have not seen a new one in a lot of years. In my opinion, that is OK. Stainless steel works very well, at least in the waters we encounter here in the Midwest.
Now, I realize that some readers may find different aquifers and different water qualities in other parts of the good old USA. I am aware that louvered screens and even punched pipe screens are used in some regions—most often, I understand, in areas where gravel-packed wells are popular. I can, however, only relate my experiences in Michigan, where we have a lot of wells in the ground, and I will remain a wire wound SS screen man ‘til I’m long gone.