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Monitoring well development is necessary to ensure that complete hydraulic connection is made – and maintained – between the well and the aquifer material surrounding the well screen and filter pack.

"Benefits of horizontal directional drilling were realized on a recently completed residential retrofit project in Rock Hill, S.C."

"The ground water industry lost one of its finest members with the death of Harry Brown, MGWC, at age 77 on Aug. 7, 2011."

"The primary function of the pressure tank in a pumped water system is to protect the pump motor."

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"With everything slowing down in the housing industry, and a lot of house-well drillers very short on work, a lot of people (myself included) have had to turn to alternatives to keep busy and make a living."

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced the next steps in its congressionally mandated hydraulic fracturing study,  identifying seven case studies to help inform the assessment of potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources. 

Or all is not well that ends a well.

Scientists and drillers recovered a remarkable suite of heat-tempered basalts that provide a detailed picture of the rarely seen boundary between magma and seawater.

The Cook Inlet Region of Alaska contains an estimated 19 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, about 600 million barrels of oil, and 46 million barrels of natural gas liquids, according to a new assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey. This estimate is of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources, and includes both unconventional and conventional resources.