Green Risks

Prince William County Extension will be having a well water clinic in March to comply with the Governor’s “modified stay at home order” and ...

The recent rains in this part of Virginia not only allowed me to find four leaks in my roof where the solar panel rack was not flashed a...

This spring in the well water clinic we run each year we found 25 wells out of 114 that had coliform "PRESENT." On a state lev...

Although the majority of the United States' population gets its drinking water from pubic systems, approximately 43 million Americans o...

Regularly, I receive questions about people’s wells through my blog. Recently I received the following question: Our well water great then...

Regularly, I receive questions about people’s wells through my blog. If you send your email address I will try to be helpful, but there are...

I often get questions from readers and as part of the VAMWON network. Often the questions do not have enough detail for me to be helpful. Li...

Last winter after initially offering the service for around $1,200 the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) decided to sample and analyze at ...

As part of the Virginia Household Water Quality Program the Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) holds an annual subsidized drinking wate...

Private wells do not fall under the regulatory authority of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the Safe Drinking Water Act. I...

If you have a private drinking water well you are responsible for maintaining your well and water system to keep the water flowing to your h...

It was hot and the sun was brutal, so we took a break. Grabbing a cold drink we sat in the shade of a tree on the stone enclosure I had bu...