Featured ARTICLES
23 Rising to the Challenge
By Mike Price
Florida firm worked overtime to service
those in need following Hurricane Irma.
26 Taking the Key Step
By William Wagner
Well development is often overlooked,
but it is critical to the life of a well
system.
31 Learn from Your Mistakes
By William Lynott
Seven costly management mistakes:
Here's how you can avoid them.
January 2018
Vol. 72, No. 1
waterwelljournal.com
About the cover: The effects of Hurricane Irma seen at
a house on a canal off the St. Johns River in Fleming Island,
Florida, where the surge was about 5 feet above normal
tidal level. The wellhead is under the photographer's kayak.
The well was a 3-inch free flowing Floridan aquifer well. The
photo was taken on September 11, 2017, during the tail
end of Irma. See page 23 to read "Rising to the Challenge."
Photo courtesy Merritt Partridge, CVCLD, vice president
of Partridge Well Drilling Co. Inc. in Jacksonville, Florida.
Partridge serves on the National Ground Water Association
Board of Directors.
2 January 2018 WWJ