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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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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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Groundwater and Well Construction 101 – Recorded Live on October 30, 2024

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In this recorded webinar, you’ll learn about how water moves through the ground to your well and how well construction can increase contamination vulnerability. The webinar will answer questions such as:

 

  • Types of wells and well construction,
  • The basic components of a well system, and
  • Water treatment options.

 

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Potential Impacts of Drought and Flooding on Private Wells - Recorded Live on August 27, 2024

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In this webinar, you’ll learn ways to serve and support individual well owners, public health, and cooperative extension that encounter potential impacts from drought and flooding events. The webinar will answer questions such as: 

  • Ways to serve and support individual well owners, public health, and cooperative extension,
  • What are potential impacts from drought events, and
  • The potential impacts from flooding events.


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