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Samples will be screened for contaminants and salinity.

The Texas Well Owner Network will provide low-cost water screenings for contaminants, including total coliform bacteria, E. coli, nitrate-nitrogen and salinity.

The Texas Well Owner Network, TWON, is hosting well water screenings Aug. 13-14 in Hempstead for residents of Waller County. Samples will be screened for contaminants and salinity.

Residents in the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District are invited to water well screenings and results meeting July 10-11.

Residents near Benavides, Falfurrias, Robstown, Rio Grande City and Kingsville are invited to free water well screenings and results meetings.

Residents of Ector and Midland counties are invited to water well screenings and results meetings.

Residents of Cottle, Childress, Foard, Hardeman, King and Motley counties are invited to water well screenings and results meeting

The Texas Well Owner Network is hosting a “Well Educated” water well screening Feb. 7 in Hondo to give area residents the opportunity to have their well water screened. Residents will receive water test results at Feb. 8 educational meeting.

The Texas Well Owner Network, in conjunction with the Mill Creek Watershed Partnership, is hosting a “Well Educated” water well screening Feb. 5 in Bellville and Brenham to give area residents the opportunity to have their well water screened. Test results meeting on Feb. 7.

Residents of Llano, Lampasas and Goldthwaite areas are invited to private water well screenings and results meetings.

Wimberley area residents can have their well water screened by the Texas Well Owner Network Nov. 15.

The Texas Well Owner Network is hosting upcoming events in West Texas Oct. 10-13 to allow residents to have their well water screened.

Residents near Munday, Seymour, Granbury, Montague, Weatherford, Vernon, Wichita Falls, Henrietta, Benjamin, Decatur and Springtown are invited to Texas Well Owner Network water well screenings and results meetings.

The Texas Well Owner Network invites residents near Cameron, Belton, Killeen and Temple to free water screenings and results meetings.

Residents near Mount Pleasant, Longview and Marshall are invited to free water well screenings and results meetings.

The Texas Well Owner Network is hosting a “Well Educated” water well screening Feb. 27 in Bastrop to give area residents the opportunity to have their well water screened.

Private well owners can get their water tested and learn about well maintenance at a series of "Well Informed" and "Well Educated" events from the Texas Well Owner Network taking place in mid-June

The Texas Well Owner Network is hosting several water well screenings in early May for residents in Brewster, Crockett, Culberson, Ector and Midland, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Presidio, Reeves and Terrell counties. These events will give area residents the opportunity to have their well water screened.

The Texas Well Owner Network is hosting a water well screening July 28 in Levelland to give area residents the opportunity to have their well water screened. Samples need to be dropped off the day before on July 27.

For the month of March, we are spotlighting our groundwater programs, which include the Texas Well Owner Network, the Ogallala Aquifer Program, the Ogallala Water Coordinated Agricultural Project and the Transboundary Water Portal.

The Texas Well Owner Network trainings scheduled for March 23 in Bandera and March 24 in Bulverde have been postponed.

A Texas Well Owner Network, or TWON, training has been scheduled for Feb. 5 in College Station.

This month in our Program Spotlight, we feature the Texas Well Owner Network.

The Texas Well Owner Network will present water well screenings in October in six Texas counties to give area residents the opportunity to have their well water tested.

The Texas Well Owner Network has scheduled several free Well Educated trainings for November for private water well owners who depend on household wells for their water needs.

Private water well owners whose wells flooded from the recent rains from Tropical Depression Imelda should assume that their well water is con­taminated until tested. 

The Texas Well Owner Network is hosting a water well screening May 8 in Junction to give area residents the opportunity to have their well water screened. The screening will be from 8:30–10 a.m. at the Kimble County Courthouse, second floor, 501 Main St.

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will offer several Texas Well Owner Network well water screenings in April in the North Texas area.

A Texas Well Owner Network training has been scheduled for 1-5 p.m. Feb. 22 at the Falls County Courthouse, 125 Bridge St., County Court Room 110 in Marlin.

Results from Texas well water screenings in areas affected by flooding over the past few years show the importance of those screenings in helping ensure water quality and human health, said Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service personnel supporting the agency’s Texas Well Owner Network.

If you have your own private water well, do the boil water notices in your area affect you? What do you do if you think your water well has flooded? Is your well water safe to drink and to use for household duties?

A Texas Well Owner Network Well Educated training has been scheduled for 1-5 p.m. Oct. 18 at the Bee County Expo Center, 214 S. Farm to Market 351 in Beeville.

The Texas Well Owner Network is hosting water well screenings Sept. 18 in Leming and San Antonio to give area residents the opportunity to have their well water screened.

A Texas Well Owner Network training has been scheduled for Sept. 25 in Carthage.

The Texas Well Owner Network is conducting two Well Educated trainings in West Texas and a sampling screening campaign in August.

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s Texas Well Owner Network (TWON) program has scheduled several trainings and screenings in July.

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will offer several Texas Well Owner Network trainings and screenings in July, said program coordinators.

The Texas Well Owner Network (TWON) has received the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s 2018 Texas Environmental Excellence Award in the category of education.

A free Texas Well Owner Network training has been scheduled for April 24 in Stephenville.

The Texas Well Owner Network is having several private water well screenings in August as well a training program for those interested in private water well management, Aug. 23 in Conroe.

The Texas Well Owner Network will be having free water well trainings July 26 in Fredericksburg and July 27 in Wimberley for anyone interested in private water well management.

Well owners who drink water from a private well should have the water tested at least once a year to make sure that it is safe to drink. The Texas Well Owner Network (TWON) recommends that well owners test their water at least annually for bacteria, nitrates and contaminants of local concern, such as arsenic.

Anyone interested in private water well management is invited to attend upcoming Texas Well Owner Network trainings and screenings around the state.

The Texas Well Owner Network has received a Superior Service Award in the team category from the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.

Published by the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, The Cattleman magazine’s annual water issue recently featured the statewide education and water well screening work of the Texas Well Owner Network.