Articles Tagged with ''water well drilling''

The driller has to not only find and identify the producing formations, he also has to minimize damage to the formation.

Looking at a water map of the U.S. recently, I noticed that most of the Great Lakes states — which include Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, plus the non-Great Lakes state of Iowa — all have groundwater that is classified as very hard.

There's undeniably a crisis affecting large swaths of the U.S., and a lot of urban and suburban Americans don't see it.

If you have read many of these columns, you know that water wells and pumps in Michigan are regulated by our Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). Several years ago, the DEQ asked industry members to participate in what is called the Director’s Water Well Advisory Committee.