What this site is, and how it is meant to pay for itself
You arrived from a search that a well contractor also wanted to rank for. So before anything else: this is not a contractor, and the plainest way to say that is to explain exactly what it is instead, including the part about money.
- Independent: we sell no equipment
- Marion County only
- Every claim cited to its source
- Costs you nothing
An independent guide to private well water in Marion County, Florida. It exists because the search results for this subject are dominated by three things, none of which is much use to somebody standing in a garage listening to a pump click: national cost calculators, extension articles written for Minnesota and Pennsylvania, and companies whose answer to every question is a system they sell.
Marion County is a specific place with specific geology, two water management districts and its own permitting offices. Almost nothing written for a general audience survives contact with that. So the editorial rule is simple: if a national page already answers it correctly, leave it alone. If the local answer is different, write the local answer and cite where it came from.
What it is not
Not a contractor
Nobody here drills, repairs, installs or tests anything, and no equipment is sold.
Not affiliated with any government office
The health department, the building department and the water management districts are named because they are the correct people to call. None has endorsed or reviewed a word of this.
Not a review site
There are no testimonials and no star ratings anywhere on this domain, because there is no service to review. Any that appeared would be invented.
Not a directory of paid listings
No company has paid to be mentioned or omitted.
How it is funded, in plain terms
The intention is that one Marion County contractor eventually sponsors the site and receives the enquiries it generates. That is the business model and there is no reason to be coy about it, because the consequences are easier to see if you know.
As of today no contractor has signed, and the site behaves accordingly. The symptom checker on the front page will not ask for a phone number, because there is nobody to give it to. That is not a design choice an enthusiastic marketing decision could override. When no destination is configured, the form does not exist in the page at all: no fields, no submit button, no collection of anything.
How the facts here are sourced
Every factual claim about permits, licensing, geology or water chemistry is recorded against a primary source with the date it was read and the geography it holds for. The sources used are the Florida Department of Health and its Marion County office, the Department of Environmental Protection, the St. Johns River and Southwest Florida water management districts, Marion County Building Safety, the USGS, and UF IFAS extension material.
Prices are the exception worth stating twice. Every dollar figure on this site is a published range from elsewhere, not a local quote, and it is there so a number somebody gives you can be sanity-checked. Nobody here has priced a job in this county.
What this site is, in full
About this guide
Ocala Well Water publishes an independent guide to private well water for homeowners in Marion County, Florida. It does not drill, repair, test or install anything, and it sells no equipment.
How this site makes money
When a homeowner is put in touch with a contractor, this site may be paid for the introduction. Payment does not change any fact shown on these pages, and every claim about permits, licensing or water chemistry is sourced to the office or study it came from so you can check it yourself.
Corrections
Permit rules, offices and fees move, and a page about them is worth less than nothing once it is stale. Write to corrections@ocalawellwater.com with the page, the disputed fact and a source, and it will be corrected or removed, and the correction dated.