Licenses must be renewed by July 1 of each year to be valid. Information on the current license status of a particular company or individual can be obtained by contacting the Water Well Board. The Board does not employ inspectors due to budgetary constraints, however, DES staff are always available to assist local code enforcement officials and private citizens regarding well construction and pump installation standards. Questions commonly addressed by staff include water quality and quantity issues related to the method of well construction and the natural hydrologic and geologic environment in New Hampshire.
Staff also provides information on well location requirements.
Well completion report records, which must be completed by licensed contractors for each drilled well, are physically stored in the office of the DES Water Supply Engineering Bureau at 64 North Main Street, Concord, N.H. Information about each of these more than 50,000 reported wells is also contained in a geographically referenced computer database. Efforts to field locate, and assign geographic coordinates to well sites is an ongoing program. Photo copies of individual well completion reports are provided to well owners upon request.