Released March 8, 2010
STEVENS POINT, Wis. -- Groundwater Awareness Week, March 7-13, offers the perfect time to talk about important things that landowners can do to protect groundwater on their property.
Groundwater is the principal water supply for nearly three-quarters of Wisconsin residents and virtually all rural landowners. Because people with wells generally rely on groundwater for their drinking water, it’s important that potential sources of groundwater contamination are identified and corrected.
Unused wells left open and unattended are direct conduits to groundwater and are a common cause of groundwater contamination in rural areas. Anything that is dumped down the well or allowed to flow into an unused well is recharged directly into the groundwater aquifer and bypasses the natural filtering of pollutants that takes place as water infiltrates through the soil.
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