RECORD KEEPING: MAINTAINING YOUR OWN WELL RECORDS
What well water records should be kept? Keep records of maintenance, test results, and repairs to help your contractor with future repairs.
What Well Records Should be Kept? Copies of the well share agreements, electricity usage, bank account balances.
How & Where Should the Well Records be Kept? Ideally, the records will be kept online, where they can easily be updated and accessed by all parties to the well share agreement. In addition to keeping copies of all the well record forms submitted to the Arizona Department of Water Resources, well owners should keep a summary of their well construction and maintenance activities.
ADWR Records
The ADWR maintains records for all water wells, exempt and non-exempt, in a database accessible by the public through their website: www.azwater.gov. Their database contains the records for all water wells drilled since the Ground Water Management Act of 1980 was established and may include older wells. Instructions as to how to access individual well records can be found in the “An Arizona Guide to Domestic Well Registration and Record-Keeping, AZ1663.” Private well owners are encouraged to verify the information the ADWR has on file for their well. It is especially important that private well owners keep their own records of their well permits and logs, pump, controls, tanks, and treatment system operating manuals, and water testing results. No state agency oversees private water wells after they have been permitted and drilled or monitors their water quality. It is the well owner’s responsibility to test the well water quality.
To assist in this task a well maintenance record form can be found by clicking HERE. This form lists and groups the types of information necessary for the efficient up-keep and repair. When a water pump is exchanged then it is to be reported to the ADWR. See ADWR Online Pump Completion Report (azwater.gov).
If you have questions about maintaining well records, then contact the Dunaway Law Group at 480-702-1608 or Clint@DunawayLG.com.
* The information provided is informational only, does not constitute legal advice, and will not create an attorney-client or attorney-prospective client relationship. Additionally, the Dunaway Law Group, PLC limits its practice to the State of Arizona.
