Four Winds RC&D Area

"Working together to improve rural Texas"

Counties Served

Baylor Childress Cottle Dickens

Foard Hardeman Haskel King

Knox Motley Stonewall Throckmorton Wilbarger

For Information Contact: Four Winds RC&D Area Darren Clark, Coordinator P.O. Box 548 606 East Main Knox City, TX 79529-0548 Phone (940) 658-3680 Fax (940) 658-3781

Protecting Underground Water Supplies through Education and Awareness

One of the priority concerns identified within the Four Winds RC&D Area is protecting underground water supplies. In 1999, a program was initiated to better educate private water well owners on how to protect their well, and to better manage the area around the wellhead.

To encourage these well owners to participate in the program, Four Winds RC&D Councils purchased mobile water testing equipment with the assistance of an $8,500 grant award.

Well owners get their water samples screened for contaminants (nitrates, bacteria, and total salts). When the owner returns to receive their individual results from the screening, they also have an opportunity to discuss management and safety for the well and underground water supplies. The TEX*A*SYST educational information program is provided to the well owners to assist them with implementing better management.

Since 1999, each of the 13 counties within the Four Winds RC&D Area have held at least one water well screening. Four Winds RC&D Area also assists other RC&D Areas with providing this opportunity for the residents of their respective RC&D Areas.

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