Groundwater Wells: What You Need to Know

  1. Well Basics: Placement and Construction (529 KB)
  2. Monitoring, Maintenance, and Retrofitting (673 KB)
  3. Decommissioning or Abandoning a Well (741 KB)
  4. Well Aware – A guide to caring for your well and protecting your family’s health.
  5. Iron and Sulphur Bacteria
  6. Buying or Selling Property with a Well

Well Water Quality (Fact Sheets)

  1. Arsenic
  2. Lead
  3. Manganese
  4. Uranium
  5. Iron
  6. Sodium
  7. Selenium
  8. Fluoride

Well Water Information

  • Map of potential uranium in well water
  • Map of potential arsenic in well water
  • Map of potential fluoride in well water

Well Construction Record Request

  • Email the Groundwater Section at groundwatersection@gov.nl.ca and include the well address and name of the well owner who had the well drilled (if known).