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Resource Category: Monitoring + Testing

Small communities with aerated lagoon and facultative-controlled discharge lagoon wastewater treatment systems face increasingly stringent requirements for ammonia, pH, dissolved oxygen, and bacteria with the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permits. 
If you drink water out of a private water supply, you should test your water source at least once each year and anytime the well is serviced or the water changes in look, smell or taste. Iowa DNR's private well testing helps ensure the safety and quality of your private water supply.
The Water Supply Section of the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources oversees the regulation of the construction and renovation of private wells and the plugging of abandoned wells by Certified Water Well Contractors in the State of Iowa.
Your online resource for programs, forms, guidance and rules on private water supply wells in Iowa. Your local county environmental health office can help you arrange water testing or you can request a water sample test kit from a certified drinking water laboratory of your choice. The water is then sampled and sent to the laboratory for analysis.