How Water Wells Work
Welcome to the Clean Water Made Easy Podcast, Episode One: How Water Wells Work. My name is Gerry Bulfin, WQA Master Water Specialist and Water Treatment Contractor in  Santa Cruz, California.
Thanks for listening! During this inaugural episode of “Clean Water”, I will cover the basics of how water wells work, including environmental considerations and sanitation. Proper installation and maintenance of your well is important and hopefully this podcast will help guide those looking to safely use well water on a daily basis.
I have worked as a well water treatment specialist for twenty-five years. Though I generally work in Northern California and am a certified installer there, I have also worked all over the world. I have left behind many satisfied customers. Through this work, I have gleaned a lot of important information regarding clean water and hope to pass on this information to my listeners.
Topics Covered Include:

Groundwater explained
Drilled wells explained
Possible well contaminants
Considerations for areas near hydro-fracking
Dealing with cracks and loose fittings
The first step of proper well management
Sanitizing your well


My name is Gerry Bulfin. I’m a water treatment contractor and WQA certified Master Water Specialist.
I’m owner and founder of cleanwaterstore.com and I would like to welcome you to the podcast. Hey thanks for listening.
You’re in the right place if you want to learn more about well water, well water treatment systems, and how to improve the quality of your well water. If you’re experiencing stains, sediment, scale build-up, corrosion or odor in your water, or if you’d had your water tested and it came back with a positive for coliform bacteria, this podcast series is for you. Or maybe your water tastes and smells great but you just want to find out more about wells and water quality.
Each episode in this series is broken down into an area or topic. You can listen to each one individually or you can jump around and listen to the ones that pertain most to your application. This series is primarily about well water treatment but also touch on rainwater and spring water as well.
Download FREE Well Water Guide
In this episode, we’re going to cover the basics of how water wells work. It will also go over how to disinfect and sanitize your well. Also I have a free gift for you, a well water cheat sheet and resource guide that I can send you. I created this guide as a companion to today’s podcast to make it easy to follow along with and it has an exploded view of how a typical well works.
It also has a flow rate calculator guide so you can easily estimate what your well water flow rate is. And a step-by-step guide on how to sanitize your well. If you’d like to get your free copy, just text the word “wellwater” all one word, wellwater, to 44222 or go to cleanwaterstore.com/podcast and you get it there, we’ll get it going to you.
The Host/Resource Person
Okay a little bit about myself. I started in well water back in 1989 and I’ve owned several companies in the water business and I’m the founder and CEO of cleanwaterstore.com where we sell custom water treatment systems. I have a California state contractor’s license for water treatment and I’m certified by the Water Quality Association as a Master Water Specialist as well as a certified installer.
I also trained and worked for many years as a state-licensed water treatment plant operator and distribution operator. And we operate numerous small community water systems around Northern California. I also wrote a book on well water treatment, it’s called the Definitive Guide to Well Water Treatment. And I guess I just really love well water and talking all about well water and well water qu...