{"id":578423,"date":"2026-04-11T19:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/578423\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:12:18","slug":"idem-offering-free-well-testing-to-track-groundwater-quality-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/578423\/","title":{"rendered":"IDEM offering free well testing to track groundwater quality | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Courtesy IDEM<\/p>\n

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (WLFI) – The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is offering free well water testing to eligible homeowners through its 2026 Groundwater Monitoring Network program.<\/p>\n

The agency collects samples from qualified private wells to track groundwater conditions and identify areas affected by natural geology or human activity.<\/p>\n

To qualify, property owners must live in Indiana and have an active private well. The well must be listed in the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Online Water Well Record Database.<\/p>\n

Homeowners need to provide IDEM with a copy of their water well record. If they don’t have one, IDEM will try to find it in the DNR database.<\/p>\n

Property owners must complete this\u00a0online survey<\/a>\u00a0by June 1st.<\/p>\n

IDEM will select a limited number of participants and contact them to schedule a sample collection between June and October 2026.<\/p>\n

Participation is voluntary, and results will be shared directly with the homeowner.<\/p>\n

Because private wells aren’t regulated, IDEM encourages homeowners to test their water regularly. More information is available at idem.IN.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy IDEM INDIANAPOLIS, IN (WLFI) – The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is offering free well water testing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,2652,3729,3,79,452],"class_list":["post-578423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-indiana","tag-local","tag-news","tag-science","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}