Corrections

How to report an error

Email editor@wellsnear.com with the page address and what is wrong. Contractors: include your license, certification or registration number and the state that issued it. A business that asks to be removed is removed the same day. You do not need to be a customer, and a business never has to pay or advertise to get its page corrected.

How fast we fix it

When we confirm an error, the fix is live on the site within one business day and is added to the log below with its date. If we cannot confirm it, we tell you what we checked.

What we can change, and what we cannot

We fix:

• A license, certification or registration fact (class, number, expiry) that differs from the state list we cite.
• A business's phone, website, address or services, once the business or its Google profile confirms the change.
• A well rule, water testing detail or price that differs from the page we cite, and links that no longer work.

We cannot change:

• The state's own record. The licensing board keeps it; our next read of its list picks up any change.
• Ratings and review counts, which are copied from Google.

Log of corrections and updates

A correction means we had something wrong. An update means the source changed or moved. Design and speed changes are not listed.

• October 11, 2026 Update
  18 official links fixed after their agencies moved the pages (Missouri health and natural resources well pages, Georgia DPH and EPD files, Iowa well grants, the Arkansas health lab, TDLR, USGS, Texas A&M and others); the 34 quotes on them were checked again. Blanco groundwater district fees now follow its fee schedule effective October 1, 2025.
• October 11, 2026 Correction
  Service labels taken from business websites now show only services the business's own site offers. A sample check found 93 of 100 labels right before the change (heat, sump and grinder pumps read as well pumps, soil test drilling read as well drilling, symptom lists and reviews). A fresh sample after the change found 98 of 100 right.
• October 10, 2026 Update /guides/maine-private-well-rules/
  Maine amended its landlord well testing law (22 MRSA 2660-Y): landlords now test for arsenic and the other contaminants the state names, not arsenic alone. The Maine guide, its quote and its FAQ answer now say so.
• October 7, 2026 Correction
  11 listings showed license details from another state's list after two lists shared a business name and phone number (license counts repeated or missing, and in a few cases another state's license number). Each listing now shows only its own state record, at the same address on the site.
• October 7, 2026 Correction
  Companies matched to Google by name carried the badge "Phone matches its Google profile"; they now say "Matched to its Google profile". 15 Texas listings whose licenses had all passed their expiry no longer say the license is active, and state pages no longer say we re-read the lists monthly, which was not yet true.