Free Water Well Testing Available To Oklahoma Flood Victims

The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality is offering free bacterial testing of private well water for Oklahomans whose wells have been flooded.

The testing is for wells in the following counties: Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal, Delaware, Haskell, Hughes, Johnston, Latimer, LeFlore, Love, Marshall, Mayes, McCurtain, McIntosh, Murray, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Ottawa, Pittsburg, Pontotoc, Pushmataha, Sequoyah, and Wagoner. 

If your private well has been submerged in flood water, DEQ recommends you not drink the water from the well until the flood waters recede and you have safe sample results from DEQ. For sampling instructions and supplies, contact DEQ at (800) 522-0206. DEQ recommends that you disinfect your well prior to sampling.

The free testing will be available until February 29, 2016.

Get Instructions on how to disinfect your well here. 

The Cherokee Nation's Office of Environmental Health will test any tribal citizen's water well that may have been inundated by flood waters. If the well needs to be disinfected the office will provide instructions on how to do that and will re-test the well once that is done.

To schedule a test, call the Cherokee Nation Office of Environmental Health at 918-453-5111 and provide your name, address and directions to the home. The service is available to citizens of any federally recognized tribe residing within the tribe's jurisdiction.