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13 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® AUGUST 2014 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® is the ONLY drilling magazine with more than 1030 years of experience! Send Your Breaking News to: promotions@worldwidedrillingresource.com Breaking News NGWA Water Well Construction Standard Accepted by ANSI The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved the National Ground Water Association (NGWA) water well construction standard. NGWA's first ever third-party-sanctioned standard, ANSI/NGWA-01-14, sets a baseline of expec- tations for water well professionals to meet in residential, agricultural, monitoring, industrial, and public supply water wells. The standard seeks to contribute to public health and safety, resource protection, and serve as a focus for NGWA's voluntary water well system professional certification program. The process to establish the standard began eight years ago when NGWA first initiated efforts to become an ANSI- accredited standards developer. NGWA's initiative was officially announced via ANSI's Standards Action in 2008. Topics covered by the ANSI/NGWA standard include: • Well site selection • Casing and casing installation • Plumbness and alignment • Well development • Testing for performance • Data recording • Disinfection with chlorine • Water sampling and analysis • and much more! "This is a very good day for our industry. I trust this standard will help us all design and build better products and services for our customers," said Todd E. Hunter, CWD/PI, a member of NGWA's standards development oversight committee and an NGWA Board officer. "I thank everyone involved for the countless hours spent putting this together." Thom M. Hanna, RPG, also a member the committee, said the standard will provide minimum criteria to anyone who needs guidance on properly designed and constructed well systems. "There is more guidance in some places than others, but there are a lot of areas where there is no guidance," said Hanna, who also stated many people look to NGWA for guidance in well construction, which this standard provides. ! " # !