NGWA endorses the work: “…the National Ground Water Association congratulates this initiative and looks forward to its continuing evolution to capture best practices in groundwater protection and in water well design, construction, and operation and maintenance.”
Contributions toward the translation, publication and distribution of the Guidelines are needed. Tax deductible contributions can be made through the Ann Campana Judge Foundation. Please identify your donation as being for the Well Guidelines.
A Well Construction Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) by Jaynie Whinnery is also available. The conclusions of this CBA should certainly make any reasonable person to pause and reflect before ever considering taking shortcuts in design or construction that could result in an inferior well. Ms. Whinnery has made the spreadsheet available that she used in support of the CBA. The spreadsheet will re-compute the CBA results with a change to any of the following assumptions: number of wells, number of users per well, construction costs, discount rate, percent of income used for water, local GNI-PPP, or morbidity and mortality values. The formula is also viewable for each cell in the spreadsheet.