Responsibility and scope
WellLookup publishes and maintains these guides and its source integrations. Our scope is organizing and interpreting published records for property research. Software and data-processing work is distinct from hydrogeology, well construction, laboratory testing and legal advice. These pages do not claim independent professional review unless a named reviewer, relevant qualification, date and specific review scope are stated.
Evidence for a factual claim
Use the original agency record, field definition or published dataset as the factual source. Retain the identifier, retrieval date, requested fields and a route back to the source. Distinguish the underlying filing from a summary index and an agency's wording from WellLookup's interpretation. A source retrieval check does not establish that every published value is correct.
Examples and original analysis
Explain how records were selected before interpreting them. Teaching examples are deliberately selected; bounded convenience samples describe those rows only. Retain blanks and distinguish them from zero, distinguish borehole and completed depths, and identify the source meaning of test rates. Do not infer statewide statistics, present performance or parcel ownership from a handful of nearby records.
Automation and review
Software collects allowlisted fields, transforms compatible units and calculates comparisons. Automated assistance is also used in preparing explanatory material and code. Automation is not a credential or independent technical review. The field audit publishes its data and method so readers can check its calculations. Published snapshots are refreshed only after their source checks succeed; a page revision does not silently refresh the source retrieval date.
Commercial separation
The free search and optional paid report use available public evidence. Payment does not create missing records, improve location accuracy or turn a historical measurement into a current test. Source restrictions and known coverage limits belong before the purchase decision, alongside the free results.
Report and resolve an error
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Corrections to WellLookup's transcription, units or interpretation are separate from changes to an agency's underlying record. For an official-record error, use the agency's correction route as well. Substantive confirmed corrections should identify what changed and when, alongside the affected page or in the change record below. No response-time or agency-correction guarantee is made.
Change record
: Added explicit source-coverage labels to the homepage and report flow, domestic-led Texas and Minnesota teaching examples, distinct log-reading and homebuying guides, and a reproducible six-index field audit. Replaced generic guidance on the two worked guides. Existing source-retrieval dates remain attached to their original examples.