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Following its determination that the National Ground Water Association (NGWA) properly met its standard development process, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved, pending a 15-day appeal period, for NGWA to issue ANSI/NGWA-01-14, a water well construction standard. NGWA’s first-ever third-party sanctioned standard, ANSI/NGWA-01-14 sets a baseline of expectations for water well system professionals to meet for residential, agricultural, monitoring, industrial, and public supply water wells. The standard seeks to contribute to public health and safety, resource protection, and to serve as an outcomes focus for NGWA’s voluntary water well system professional certification program.
Topics covered by the ANSI/NGWA standard include:
- Well site selection
- Casing and casing installation
- Well screens, filter pack, and formation stabilizer
- Grouting
- Plumbness and alignment
- Well development
- Testing for performance
- Data recording
- Disinfection with chlorine
- Water sampling and analysis
- Permanent well and test-hole decommissioning.
Thom M. Hanna, RPG, a member of NGWA’s Standards Development Oversight Committee, said the standard will provide minimum criteria to anyone who needs guidance on properly designed and constructed well systems.
It will be available in the NGWA bookstore in the near future. For more information, contact Jessica Rhoads, NGWA industry practices administrator, at jrhoads@ngwa.org or by calling 800 551.7379, ext. 511.
Henry M. Wise, P.G.
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