{"id":4104,"date":"2009-04-27T06:45:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T10:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/?p=4104"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:46:22","slug":"umes-offers-free-private-well-water-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/umes-offers-free-private-well-water-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"UMES Offers Free Private Well Water Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday, April 27, 2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"342\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-29-at-7.48.32-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-29-at-7.48.32-AM.png 220w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-29-at-7.48.32-AM-193x300.png 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PRINCESS ANNE, MD-A Safe Drinking Water Clinic will be held on Saturday, May 2, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Food Science and Technology Building at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.&nbsp; Participants can receive a free water analysis of their home drinking water supply and results of that analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Thousands of Delmarva residents rely on a private well system for their home drinking water,&#8221; says Corrie Cotton, research assistant professor and extension specialist, UMES Department of Agriculture, Food and Resources Sciences.&nbsp; &#8220;The homeowner has the sole responsibility of managing the quality of their private well to ensure it meets drinking water safety standards to protect their family&#8217;s health.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Cotton, information will be disseminated about how to avoid, detect and treat contaminants that may affect the quality of drinking water.&nbsp; Topics of discussion include: proper well maintenance, land use impacts, wellhead protection, water testing and interpretation, solving water problems and water conservation.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Testing for pH, total coliform bacteria, E. coli bacteria, nitrate and total dissolved solids will be done.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pre-registration is required to receive materials and procedures for collecting home water samples.&nbsp; Contact Cotton at 410-651-6630 or by email at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:cpcotton@umes.edu\">cpcotton@umes.edu<\/a>&nbsp;to register for this workshop by April 24.&nbsp; The Safe Drinking Water Clinic is free and is sponsored by the UMES Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>###<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Gail Stephens, assistant director, UMES Office of Public Relations, 410-651-7580,&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:gcstephens@umes.edu\">gcstephens@umes.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, April 27, 2009 PRINCESS ANNE, MD-A Safe Drinking Water Clinic will be held on Saturday, May 2, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Food Science and Technology Building at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.&nbsp; Participants can receive a free water analysis of their home drinking water supply and results of that&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/umes-offers-free-private-well-water-testing\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">UMES Offers Free Private Well Water Testing<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-4104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}