Testing My Well Water In Cm

[jaideeguy]

I've recently dug an old fashioned well and would like to have the water tested, mainly for bacteria and got a high price from a private lab. Seems that there should be some government water testing services.

know of any????

[chiangmaibruce]

I've recently dug an old fashioned well and would like to have the water tested, mainly for bacteria and got a high price from a private lab. Seems that there should be some government water testing services.

know of any????

There was a thread on this that mentioned two places to get water tested in CNX, one cheap and cheerful and one that did a more comprehensive and expensive test. I just tried a search using "drinking+water" and got this one ... but its not THE one .. anyway its there somewhere

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Drinking-Tap...Cm-t223313.html

[drtreelove]

I've recently dug an old fashioned well and would like to have the water tested, mainly for bacteria and got a high price from a private lab. Seems that there should be some government water testing services.

know of any????

Jaideeguy, I don't know the answer, but if I were in you I would search on the Farming in Thailand Forum and if you don't find it from a previous discussion, ask there as the most likely place to find someone who has done this before. I would start at MaeJo University, the soils lab may know, or try the Land Development Department on the 107 CM - Mae Rim Hwy, between the hospital and the 121 ring road.

You aren't planning to drink this groundwater without boiling and filtering are you? E-coli is a common pathogen in areas near pig farms and other high manure generating operations. If you just use it for irrigation and other utility purposes you shouldn't have a problem. Sanitary drinking water is cheap, I pay 10 baht per 20 liter bottle in Mae Jo, 15 baht delivered.

[jaideeguy]

No, I wouldn't use it for drinking water.....botteled water is so cheap and we use that for all our cooking/drinking.

Plan is to use it for household use, showering, washing clothes, dishes, etc. There are no pig farms in our sparcely populated area and the only possible source of polutants would be our own septics, which are 30+ mtrs away thru heavy clay soil.