Determining the Age of Well Water
Testing the age of well water provides important information to farmers, ranchers, and other groundwater users to make informed decisions about their wells and underlying aquifers. Learn about age testing well water by measuring tritium and carbon 14. Monitoring water wells regularly is important, especially in arid and semi-arid regions like New Mexico.
For more information about natural and modern tritium levels in our region:
Groundwater Resources of Union County, New Mexico
https://nmgs.nmt.edu/publications/gui...
For more information about well monitoring and laboratories that provide water testing:
New Mexico Environment Department
https://www.env.nm.gov/
NMSU Cooperative Extension county offices:
https://aces.nmsu.edu/county/
New Mexico Soil & Water Conservation Districts:
https://nmda.nmsu.edu/nmda-homepage/d...
NMSU Extension Publications (water category):
https://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_w/