About Well Diagnosis

Well Diagnosis is a test-first water-quality diagnostic site for people who already own a private well. The path is fixed: name the symptom, get a result from a state-certified laboratory, then match the numbers to a treatment class. After that you can compare systems. The live site is https://www.welldiagnosis.com.

It is not a laboratory. It does not collect samples, issue accreditation, or store your lab sheet. It is not a well contractor and not a medical provider. It does not diagnose illness. A stain or a smell is a clue. A certified lab report is a decision document.

Homeowners and renters on a private well who are staring at orange stains, a rotten-egg odor, white scale, slime in a toilet tank, blue-green corrosion, a waterlogged pressure tank, or a printed lab report they cannot parse. If you are on a public water system, your utility and the state primacy agency are the first files. This site is written for unregulated household wells.

Pages cite primary public sources, not sales copy. The usual stack is EPA private-well guidance, CDC well-testing recommendations, USGS Circular 1332, land-grant extension bulletins, state health and laboratory-accreditation programs, NSF drinking-water treatment unit listings, and the National Ground Water Association contractor lookup. Where a state page exists, the official search is linked first. Voice is plain on purpose. Private-well water is unregulated under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. You are the utility.

Treatment class comes first. Brand catalogs are labeled manufacturer pages, not rankings. A commission, where a program is approved, does not change whether iron is iron or whether coliform goes to the health department. See disclosure.

This site is not medical, legal, or engineering advice. It does not replace a licensed well contractor, a licensed plumber, or a clinician. Bacteria or nitrate above a drinking-water standard belongs with your health department, not a shopping cart. Aesthetic problems — iron, manganese, hardness, hydrogen sulfide, iron-bacteria slime — are real and expensive. They are a different pile of paper from health-based results.

A negative home test kit does not mean the well is safe. A filter does not make water medically safer unless a lab result and a listed treatment class say so. Confirm current laboratory accreditation in the official state search before you mail a bottle. Confirm NSF listings in NSF’s own database before you buy a tank.

Two patterns, both as cited data files. A state certified-lab inventory — Pennsylvania, Florida, and Maine, and Iowa so far — or a contaminant × state guide. New pages use the same method: official program URL, how to search it, labs you can actually cite, and no invented accreditation. The repository README describes that habit so a new state or aquifer page can be added without guessing.

Questions about a listing or a citation: gracelee528@gmail.com. Email is enough. Do not send lab reports or medical history unless you have been asked for a correction to a listing.