As of 11 November 2026, The Private Well has published no corrections. When we get something wrong, we fix the page and record the fix here, with the date, the page and what changed. Found an error? Here is how to report it.
General information, not professional advice. Your pump and tank makers’ manuals and a licensed well or pump contractor decide what’s safe for your system; your state or county decides what needs a permit or a licence.
An empty log does not mean our pages are free of mistakes. It means no error has been corrected yet. Makers revise their manuals, states change their well codes and fees, and USDA’s limits change. Each page gets a fact-check against its sources, as our editorial policy explains, but no check catches everything.
Corrections log
No corrections have been published.
What counts as a correction
A correction is a change to something a page got wrong, such as an owner step, a safety warning, a precharge or switch setting, a maker’s document number, revision or page, a state rule, a section number, a setback, a fee, a record deadline, a USDA limit, a price, a date, a citation, a read date, a source’s description, a sum or a calculator result. It also covers a page that stayed unchanged after its source moved on, leaving a reader with an out-of-date rule or setting.
Routine work is not logged here. That means fixing a typo or a broken link, adding a new section or a newly read state row, or our scheduled rechecks, as our how we check page describes. A page shows an updated date only when its content really changed.
How we correct an error
- We check the report against the source, such as the maker’s document on its own site, the state statute or rule in official text, the agency’s own page or the eCFR, and rework any sum it affects.
- If the page is wrong, we fix it, along with any other page, table or calculator that uses the same step, rule or figure, and show the new updated date. A wrong safety step or warning is fixed first.
- We add an entry to the log above with the date, a link to the page, what it said and what it says now.
If the source does not settle the question, we remove the claim or say plainly that it is not confirmed. If the source supports the page as written, the page stays as it is. Advertisers have no say over what we publish, so a report from a maker, a driller, an installer, a retailer or an advertiser is checked the same way as any other.
How to report an error
Use our contact page or email contact@theprivatewell.com, and include:
- the address of the page
- the step, sentence, figure, rule or calculator result you think is wrong
- a link to the maker’s document, statute, rule or official source that shows the right answer, if you have one
Please leave out details of your own system, and don’t send test results, quotes or reports. We can’t diagnose a well, read test results, review a quote or recommend a driller, installer, inspector or product. Our pages are general information, as our disclaimer sets out. Check current rules with your state or county well program, and your equipment with its maker’s manual or a licensed well or pump contractor, before you rely on them.