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Guidance materials
Guidance materials
Fact sheets
- Arsenic in well water
- Before you start a well drilling business
- Coliform bacteria and well water sampling
- Consumer's guide to hiring a well contractor
- Drinking water well maintenance
- Elevated hydrogen sulfide gas
- Flowing wells
- Groundwater statistics
- How to locate abandoned wells
- Insects in your water well
- Iron bacteria in wells
- Manganese in wells
- Nitrate and nitrite in drinking water
- Plugging abandoned wells
- Protecting your water supply in an emergency
- Water well construction statistics in Michigan
- Water Well Viewer
- Wellogic
- Your new water well
Document and advisories
- Discharge of drilling materials into surface waters
- Drilling near surface waters
- Geothermal heat pump systems
- Lead public advisory
- Water use and water withdrawal legislation
- Water wells in shallow carbonate bedrock
- Yield tests for high capacity wells
Manuals
Health department training videos
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Introduction to water well construction
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Module 1 - Drilling methods
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Module 2 - Disinfection
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Module 3 - Deviations
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Module 4 - Ask EGLE staff
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Module 5 - Special construction criteria
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Module 6 - Flowing wells
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Module 7 - Well record review
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Module 8 - Water well final inspections
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Module 9 - Wellogic: Location, location, location
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Module 10 - Groundwater contamination and well permitting
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Module 11 - EGLE downhole camera the inside scoop
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Module 12 - Minimum program requirements (MPRs)
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Module 13 - Guardians of the source: Empowering communities through source water training
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Module 14 - Well construction enforcement process
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Self assessment evaluation training