ReviewEnvironmental health perspectives2017
Strategies to Improve Private-Well Water Quality: A North Carolina Perspective.
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- Private, public, and bottled drinking water: Shared contaminant-mixture exposures and effects challenge.Environment international · 2025Pooled it
- Private Well Testing in Peri-Urban African-American Communities Lacking Access to Regulated Municipal Drinking Water: A Mental Models Approach to Risk Communication.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2022Trial
- Predicting PFAS Exposure Risks from Rural Private Wells Using Integrated Mechanistic and Machine-Learned Bayesian Network Models.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
- Predicting arsenic and manganese contamination in private well water with Machine Learning: An integrated analysis of geologic, well construction, and permitting data.The Science of the total environment · 2025Article
- PFAS in Rural U.S. Well Water: Using Participatory Science to Identify and Communicate Results to Address Risks.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Exploring Demographic Disparities in Private Well Water Testing in North Carolina.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Evaluating the effectiveness of community-informed resource dissemination at increasing knowledge and testing rates among private well water owners in a statewide population.Journal of environmental management · 2025Article
- The private well water climate impact index: Characterization of community-level climate-related hazards and vulnerability in the continental United States.The Science of the total environment · 2024Article
- Mixed contaminant exposure in tapwater and the potential implications for human-health in disadvantaged communities in California.Water research · 2024Article
- Earth Observation Data to Support Environmental Justice: Linking Non-Permitted Poultry Operations to Social Vulnerability Indices.GeoHealth · 2024Article
- Invited Perspective: The All About Arsenic Program-A Blueprint for Leveraging Youth Engagement to Advance Water Justice.Environmental health perspectives · 2024Article
- Human biomonitoring without in-person interaction: public health engagements during the COVID-19 pandemic and future implications.BMC medical research methodology · 2024Article
- Prioritizing water availability study settings to address geogenic contaminants and related societal factors.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2024Article
- Effect of Community Water Service on Lead in Drinking Water in an Environmental Justice Community.Environmental science & technology · 2024Article
- Toxic metal mixtures in private well water and increased risk for preterm birth in North Carolina.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2023Article
- Juxtaposition of intensive agriculture, vulnerable aquifers, and mixed chemical/microbial exposures in private-well tapwater in northeast Iowa.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Sulfur dioxide reduction at coal-fired power plants in North Carolina and associations with preterm birth among surrounding residents.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2023Article
- Generation of the Chemical and Social Stressors Integration Technique (CASS-IT) to identify areas of holistic public health concern: An application to North Carolina.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Tapwater Exposures, Effects Potential, and Residential Risk Management in Northern Plains Nations.ACS ES&T water · 2022Article
- Exposure to industrial hog operations and gastrointestinal illness in North Carolina, USA.The Science of the total environment · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundEvidence suggests that the 44.5 million U.S. residents drawing their drinking water from private wells face higher risks of waterborne contaminant exposure than those served by regulated community water supplies. Among U.S. states, North Carolina (N.C.) has the second-largest population relying on private wells, making it a useful microcosm to study challenges to maintaining private-well water quality.
objectivesThis paper summarizes recommendations from a two-day summit to identify options to improve drinking-water quality for N.C. residents served by private wells.
methodsThe Research Triangle Environmental Health Collaborative invited 111 participants with knowledge of private-well water challenges to attend the Summit. Participants worked in small groups that focused on specific aspects and reconvened in plenary sessions to formulate consensus recommendations. DISCUSSION: Summit participants highlighted four main barriers to ensuring safe water for residents currently relying on private wells: (1) a database of private well locations is unavailable; (2) racial disparities have perpetuated reliance on private wells in some urbanized areas; (3) many private-well users lack information or resources to monitor and maintain their wells; and (4) private-well support programs are fragmented and lack sufficient resources. The Summit produced 10 consensus recommendations for ways to overcome these barriers.
conclusionsThe Summit recommendations, if undertaken, could improve the health of North Carolinians facing elevated risks of exposure to waterborne contaminants because of their reliance on inadequately monitored and maintained private wells. Because many of the challenges in N.C. are common nationwide, these recommendations could serve as models for other states. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP890.
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