6 Benefits of Testing Your Well Water Regularly

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May 31, 2023

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Learn why testing your well water regularly is vital to maintaining your family’s and your home’s health.

Rural neighborhoods typically offer peaceful living and fresh air. However, homes outside the city usually utilize their own drinking water supply and waste disposal systems. While the municipalities maintain city water supplies, private well owners must maintain their private wells. Part of that maintenance includes regularly testing the well’s water quality to ensure that the drinking water quality is safe and doesn’t contain harmful contaminants.

Here are the major benefits of well water testing and how to get comprehensive water quality testing with Aqualite US.

What Contaminants Are in Your Well Water?

Your well water quality can be impacted by various contaminants and types, which can depend on:

  • Geographical location
  • Environmental conditions
  • Pesticides and chemicals used on your lawn
  • Pesticides and chemicals used in your neighborhood, such as farms or factories
  • The quality of your nearby water sources

A large majority of wells naturally take up minerals from the soil. This includes calcium, sodium, and magnesium. While these minerals are relatively common in well water, too much can cause skin sensitivity and other hard water problems.

Most wells also take up chemicals from ground fertilizers (nitrates and phosphates), rocks and sediment (sodium, magnesium, calcium), sewage and landfill seepage (E. coli, microscopic parasites, sulfur-reducing bacteria), and industrial run-off chemicals (lead, arsenic, iron, radon, boron, and chromium 6).

The environmental protection agency and local health department’s best practices include annual testing for environmental and manufactured contaminants above since they cannot regulate private well water quality.

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Benefits of Testing Your Well Regularly

When levels are present or too high, any contaminant found in your well can cause problems in your home and your health. Therefore, consider these benefits of testing your well and why you should do it regularly:

Knowing That You Have Clean Water

On well systems, it is up to the homeowner to make sure that they have clean water. Testing your well is vital for identifying possible contaminants that can cause health concerns or harm your home’s plumbing and appliances. Remember that your home’s drinking water goes through no treatment system (unless you have water purification). Therefore you could be ingesting harmful substances that can affect your and your family’s health.  

Without testing your well water, you have no way of knowing how clean your private well water is and are risking contamination and your health.

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Keeping Your Well Maintenance Up for Health and Cost Concerns

Well water is more than likely to have dissolved salts and minerals. This means that your water is more like hard water, which can leave sediment lining your pipes, in your drains, on the faucet heads, and damaging the inlet valves on your appliances.

Because of the higher prevalence of hard water, you may have to clean your pipes, appliances, and the well regularly. This could cost you more in terms of maintenance and replacing your appliances. Studies report it can shorten the lives of appliances by 30–50% and increase energy bills by 29% due to reduced efficiency.

In addition to water testing, you may want to get a Water Softener or Whole-Home Water Treatment System to keep hard water out.

Keeping Dissolved Salts and Minerals From Damaging Your Skin and Appliances

Dissolved salts and minerals, like sodium, magnesium, and calcium, make up hard water, which can cause dry, itchy skin and dull hair. These also amount to scale deposits, which reduce the lifespan of your clothing, plumbing, glasses, and appliances.

If you or your family members have dry skin or hair, it may be due to high levels of salts and minerals in your water. For example, water

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