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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