Private Well Water Testing in South Dakota

County-by-county USGS area-risk estimates for private wells across South Dakota — arsenic exceedance probability and private-well population — plus how to test your own well at a South Dakota-certified laboratory.

South Dakota private-well risk summary

Counties covered

South Dakota counties with modeled risk data.

People on private wells

area estimate

120,041

estimated across covered South Dakota counties.

Average arsenic risk

area estimate

average modeled chance a well exceeds 10 µg/L arsenic across covered counties.

South Dakota counties

Find a South Dakota-certified testing lab

Get your well tested at a South Dakota-certified laboratory. We list certification programs by state.

South Dakota certified labs

These figures are USGS area estimates: statistical groundwater models describing how likely elevated contaminant levels are across a county. They are not designed to predict the concentration in any single well. Only testing your own well reveals its water quality.

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