NGWA’s Best Suggested Practice for Residential — and Other Smaller Diameter — Well Cleaning

Presented on Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Receive an overview of NGWA’s best suggested practice, Residential Well Cleaning, during this half-hour online presentation. Topics include:
  • Well cleaning — what it is and why it should be done
  • The benefits of periodic maintenance, inspection, and cleaning
  • The natural formation as a factor in well cleaning practice
  • Economics of well cleaning
  • Limitations of residential and other small diameter wells
  • Processes of well cleaning — choices of surging techniques and chemicals
  • Chlorine disinfection as a category of well treatment and cleaning.

Speaker:
Stuart Smith, CGWP, RG
Smith-Comeskey Ground Water Science LLC, Poland, OH
Stuart A. Smith, CGWP, RG, hydrogeologist and microbiologist, is a partner in Smith-Comeskey Ground Water Science LLC and Ground+Water Tanzania Ltd. He has more than 30 years’ experience in the application of research, analysis, training, and consulting related to groundwater and wells, with a focus on efficient and cost-effective analysis and rehabilitation of well problems, and well and wellfield asset management, and is a pioneer in applying biofouling analytical methods in groundwater system analysis, rehabilitation, and asset management.

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