Private Wells

Assist the VT Agency of Natural Resources and Water Well Advisory Committee address well drilling and groundwater issues. The database is the result of the Water Well Driller Licensing Rule. The rule is adopted under the authority of 10 Vermont Statutes Annotated (V.S.A.) �1390-1410. The purpose of the rule is to protect public health and the environment by providing for the licensing of water and monitoring well drillers, the recording and reporting of each well drilled, and the closure of abandoned wells.
This GIS layer consists of the geographic location of all well completion reports filed with state since 1966. Licensed Well Drillers are required to submit reports for each well (drinking water, monitor well, geothermal or closure of well) and location. The well reports include wells for single family homes, public buildings, subdivisions and public water supplies (Public Community, Non-Transient Non-Community and Transient Non-Community), along with wells deepened or closed (abandoned). There are over 110,000 reports. The well data and locations are drawn from the well completion report database. The database consisted of paper records and maps but was converted in 1995 to an electronic database for the tabular data and a GIS layer for locations tied to Well Report or Tag number.