Private Well Tracking System

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources oversees the regulation of the construction and renovation of private wells and the plugging of abandoned wells by Certified Water Well Contractors in the State of Iowa. The Administrative Authority for the regulation of private wells is the local county board of health. These boards are contracted to issue the state well construction permits. The purpose of the private well tracking system is to collect and disseminate information about private wells in Iowa. This includes new well construction permits, well construction logs, plugging abandoned wells and renovating existing ones, providing well water test results, and providing well hole geological information.