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Well Care Videos

Outreach Strategies for Working with Private Well Owners - Recorded Live on March 12, 2025

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In this webinar recording you’ll learn about outreach strategies for working with private well owners. The webinar will answer questions such as:

 

  • How to effectively engage private well owners,
  • How to develop a program for outreach to well owners, and
  • Best practices for managing a well owner program.

 

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How to Find Local Information and Help – Recorded Live on February 18, 2025

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In this recorded webinar, you’ll learn about how to find local information and help. The webinar will answer questions such as:

  • Methods for finding well logs, records, and information about your well,
  • How to find well drillers, contractors, and financial help programs in your area, and
  • When to sample, what to sample for, and best practices to protect your well system.

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What Environmental Health Professionals Need to Know about Wells - Recorded Live on January 30, 2025

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This webinar recording discusses private well topics that environmental health professionals might encounter in the field. The webinar will answer questions such as:

  • Challenges and issues that environmental health professionals face,
  • Groundwater, wells, and well owner attitudes, and
  • Gaps between groundwater and health professionals.


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Legionella Workshop - Recorded Live on January 22, 2025

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This webinar recording shares advances in Legionella testing and occurrence with practitioners and researchers related to results and challenges. This recording is a collaboration between the Private Well Class at the Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, along with the New York State Department of Health and the Southern Nevada Health District. This one-day virtual workshop took place on January 22, 2025.

This workshop was for informational purposes only, to present study results related to Legionella in home water systems. The presentation by the New Jersey Department of Health included home sampling initiatives, single case investigations, travel-related single cases, the regulatory framework and research efforts in New York State, and efforts to evaluate the occurrence of Legionella in homes on private wells. The goal of the workshop was to share advances in Legionella testing and occurrence with practitioners and researchers related to results and challenges.

 


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Is My Water Safe to Drink? – Recorded Live on December, 2024

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In this webinar recording you’ll learn about caring for your private well and best practices to protect your water supply from contamination. The webinar will answer questions such as:

  • How to get your well water tested,
  • What you need to do to take care of your well, and
  • If your well susceptible to contamination.


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