Good Well Hunting

The water utility in Wisconsin’s capital city combs older neighborhoods to find old private wells as part of efforts to protect its groundwater supply.
Good Well Hunting
Most old wells Madison Water searches for are not this obvious or as picturesque. From left, Joseph Grande, water-quality manager; Marie Van Aartsen, water-quality program specialist; and Kevin Miller, water-quality aide, sit on a 1934 well built as a Depression-era project near the Lake Mendota shoreline. The city does not use it but honored a request from residents not to dismantle it.

Some people who live in older neighborhoods in Madison, Wis., are surprised to find Kevin Miller at their door, asking to look for a private well on their property.

Often their response is, “We don’t have a well. We’ve had city water for 30 years,” says Miller, a water-quality...

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