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What to Do With Your Private Well After a Flood

The document provides steps and precautions for protecting your private well following a flood. It includes information on:

Well and pump inspection
Emergency disinfection of wells that have been flooded
Sampling and testing the well water

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What to Do After the Flood (PDF)(3 pp, 396 K, August 2005, 816-F-05-021)
English Language Version of the What to Do After the Flood Plublication