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  After researching New Jersey’s act toward drafting a similar act for Massachusetts, I explored the clear PWTA influence on the private well regulations of Buck’s County PA; of New York’s Dutchess and Rockland Counties, and its direct influence on similarly worded private well testing bills introduced – but defeated - in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and New York’s recently defeated Private Well Testing Act.  Conversely, after considerable support dating back to 2000, the Rhode Island Private Drinking Water testing bill passed in 2007 with recently-drafted regulations.

  Most northeastern states spend considerable effort, creativity, and expense in disjunctive efforts to achieve a few of the groundwater planning and public health capabilities reaped by New Jersey through modest expenditure.  Beyond New York and Rhode Island, I examine the impact of PWTA on private well testing at the local, county, and state efforts in New England and Pennsylvania.  After issues of testing records privacy and necessity of property buyer notification, I describe public health parameters of comprehensive water quality testing, discuss consequent improvement in laboratory performance, and explain essential elements of state reporting and database management.  As New Jersey demonstrated, once implemented, PWTA enables subsequent refinement of regionalized testing protocols and the economical creation of statewide groundwater models for monitoring and policy planning of groundwater availability and protection.  PWTA facilitates timely identification of groundwater contamination events and enables long-term groundwater observations for anticipated impacts to aquifers with climate change.