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Olympia Home Buyers Ask - What Do We Need To Know About Wells?
Olympia area home buyers will find that although many homes are on city water or a privately managed community water system, there are also many homes with wells providing their water.  These wells may be individual wells, serving just one home, or they could be shared wells serving two or more homes.  So, if you are looking at a home with a well, what do you need to know?
One important thing to know is that you will want to have the well water tested as a condition of buying that home.  There is a well addendum which can be included with your offer on the house, and it gives the buyer the opportunity to have the well water tested to make sure it will be safe to drink.
 

Thurston County has testing kits that can be picked up, with easy to follow instructions about how to collect the water sample and then about returning the sample to the county to be tested.  The testing will give you results about the presence of unsafe levels of coliform bacteria or nitrates, and the combined test for both costs $54 currently.
Water samples must be returned within a short window of ... more

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