Well water on Wadmalaw Island

Links to recent stories in the Charleston Post and Courier about problems with well water on Wadmalaw Island:

• Wadmalaw residents offered drinking water at Johns Island library

  2016 February 19 - 10:21

  Wadmalaw Island residents concerned about their well water will be able to fill jugs with free treated drinking water at the Johns Island Regional Library, Charleston County officials said Thursday.

• New aid effort targets ‘third-world’ conditions on Wadmalaw

  2016 February 15 - 00:01

  WADMALAW ISLAND — Nellie Bennett Boykin’s open electric oven cast some warmth in the house where she and her six grandchildren live.

• Wadmalaw well water worries spur appeal to County Council

  2016 February 04 - 15:00

  Monica Smith doesn’t drink the well water at her Wadmalaw Island home because she worries about its health effects.

Links to information about well water and testing services on the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) website:

• Testing Your Drinking Water: Private Well Water
• Well Water Quality Testing Services
• Residential Well Disinfection

The Source Water Collaborative

This is a group of organizations nationwide that have worked together on a variety of projects to protect drinking water at its source, whether that be wells or surface water. It may be possible to explore the resources on their website to come up with ways to prevent salt water intrusion in coastal aquifers. See Saltwater in Coastal Carolina Aquifers for more information on this problem.