About Well Run Water

Well Run Water is compliance-calendar software for the smallest public water systems, the ones where one person is the office, the operator, and the compliance department.

Why it exists

Last year about a quarter of the public water systems in this country picked up a monitoring or reporting violation. Very few of those were about bad water. Most were a missed date. The state publishes each system's schedule in pieces and expects the system to assemble it, and the miss shows up months later in a letter, after it is already on the public record.

The people running these systems are not careless. They are running a well and a chlorinator and a billing system and a board and a day job, and the calendar lives in a spreadsheet they built themselves. We talked to them before we built anything. That spreadsheet is what we are trying to be better than.

What it does, and does not do

It keeps the calendar and the record: what is due, what was done, who did it, and what they wrote down. It starts from the EPA's public file so you do not have to type in what the state already knows about your system.

It does not take samples, file reports, or decide what your system owes. Your primacy agency sets your requirements; your operator carries them out. Well Run Water is where both of you can see the whole list.

Who we are

Well Run Water is built in Denton, Texas by a small team with a software background and a habit of reading the rules before writing the code. Texas is first because it is home and because TCEQ's rules and free tools were the ones we knew. It is independent software, not affiliated with or endorsed by the EPA, TCEQ, or any state agency.

Questions, or something the calendar should know about? The questions and answers page covers the common ones; for anything else, write to us. A person reads every message.