Find your well record in Washington, DC
When your well was drilled, the driller filed a report: how deep the borehole goes, the casing diameter, and where the water sat. That record is the difference between guessing at your well and knowing it.
Where Washington, DC keeps its well records
The official source is the DC DOEE well permits (records by request). Look your property up there, note the total depth, casing diameter, and static water level, and bring those three numbers back to our calculator for a cleaning plan sized to your well.
What the record tells you
Three numbers matter for cleaning a well. Total depth and static water level give the standing water column, and the casing diameter converts that column to gallons: 0.0408 × diameter² gallons per vertical foot. From gallons, a disinfectant dose stops being a guess. Our kit uses those numbers to count chlorine dioxide sachets at the manufacturer's published 20 ppm shock dose, and every constant in the math is on the sources page.
Records are a starting point, not gospel: older wells may predate filing requirements, and scanned records can be missing fields. Our flow always shows you the record it found and lets you correct it before anything is sized. If you cannot find a record at all, the typical depths guide explains how to estimate honestly.
Having well trouble right now? Start with the symptom guides: iron bacteria, rotten egg smell, or a positive coliform test.