An unused well provides a direct path for contaminants and pollutants to the groundwater that supplies your nearby working well. Left uncapped, an abandoned or unused well can threaten the safety and quality of the drinking water from your new well. To protect your ground water, you properly fill and seal old wells no longer in use.
Only licensed well drillers and pump installers can fill and seal wells under Wisconsin Law, which they do by completely filling and sealing off a well. This generally means that the pump and any piping inside of the casing have been removed and the well or drillhole has been filled from the bottom to top with proper filling materials, such as cement grout, concrete grout, concrete, a clay/sand slurry mix or in some cases, bentonite chips.
The Forest County Land & Water Conservation Department has funding to help pay the cost of filling and sealing a well.
Contact Lucas O’Brien at:
715-478-1387