Local groundwater information
County agencies, health departments, and partnerships can be a good source of information about local groundwater conditions. You'll find here local sources of information for groundwater resource management efforts.
Find your county's groundwater programs
Local health departments can provide helpful guidance on siting and maintaining water-supply wells and often provide a water-testing service if you're concerned about the quality of the water in your domestic well (usually focused on nitrates, bacteria, and, in some counties, arsenic).
Watershed planning groups often evaluate groundwater as part of locally-based water resource management efforts. The website for Wellowner.org has helpful information related to groundwater and private water well systems, including tips on maintaining and testing your domestic well.
Below is a list of links for many of these local programs:
- Adams County Environmental Health Services
- Benton-Franklin County Health District Drinking Water Program
- Chelan-Douglas County Health District Drinking Water Program
- Clallam County Drinking Water Program
- Clallam County Groundwater Quality Studies
- Clark County Drinking Water Program
- Cowlitz County Environmental Health Drinking Water Program
- Cowlitz County Environmental Health Unit - Water Wells
- Garfield County Environmental Health Services Drinking Water Program
- Grant County Health District Drinking Water Programs
- Grays Harbor County Drinking Water and Wells Information
- Island County Environmental Health Drinking Water Program
- Island County Environmental Health Department Hydrogeology Program
- Jefferson County Drinking Water Program
- King County Public Health Drinking Water Program
- King County Groundwater Management Program
- Interactive database for King County Groundwater Data
- King County Groundwater Maps and Reports
- Kitsap County Health Department Drinking Water Program
See also: Bainbridge Island Groundwater Management Program - Klickitat County Drinking Water Program
- Lewis County Public Health
- Lewis County Water Laboratory Program
- Lincoln County Drinking Water Information
- Mason County Wells and Drinking Water Program
- Okanogan County Public Health Drinking Water Program
- Pacific County Environmental Health Division Well Information
- Pacific County Water Sampling Program
- Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department Drinking Water Program
- South Tacoma Groundwater Protection District
- San Juan County Drinking Water Program
- San Juan County Water Resource Management
- Skagit County Environmental Health Drinking Water Program
- Skamania County Drinking Water Program
- Snohomish County Environmental Health Division Drinking Water Program
- Snohomish County Ground Water Management Program
- Spokane Regional Health District Environmental Public Health
- Spokane County Groundwater Monitoring Program
- Spokane Aquifer Joint Board
- Thurston County Health Department Drinking Water Program
- Walla Walla County Environmental Health Drinking Water Program
- Whatcom County Health Department Drinking Water Program
- Whitman County - Palouse Basin Aquifer Committee (Pullman, WA/Moscow, ID)
- Whitman County Environmental Health Program
- Yakima County Health District Drinking Water Program
- Lower Yakima Valley Groundwater Management Area