About this paper
About These Pages
These pages explain water and plumbing on rural properties in north San Luis Obispo County, using public agency sources; they are not a plumbing, well or septic business.
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This site is a set of plain-language pages about the water systems rural homeowners run for themselves around Paso Robles, Templeton, Atascadero, San Miguel, Creston and Shandon: private wells, water quality, the groundwater basin and its rules, septic systems, storage tanks and booster pumps, fire water and drought, and the plumbing inside the house. It is laid out like a daily paper, with sections, longer stories and short briefs, but it is not news. The pages are meant to stay useful from one season to the next.
How the pages are written
Each page is written from public agency sources: the State Water Resources Control Board, the Department of Water Resources, the County of San Luis Obispo, CAL FIRE, the U.S. EPA, the CDC, the Contractors State License Board, the Paso Robles Area Groundwater Authority and the annual water quality reports of local water suppliers. Numbers, dates and rules come from those sources, and every page lists the ones it used at the end, with links, so you can read the original.
Every page also shows the date it was last updated. Rules change, fees are reset and agencies revise their standards, so where a source is old or two sources disagree, the page says so and tells you which office can confirm the current answer.
What the pages are not
We are not a contractor. Nobody at the site visits properties, tests water or does repairs, and there is no phone line or form for service. The pages can help you understand a lab report, a county requirement or a symptom, and prepare better questions, but they cannot see your well, your tank or your water.
Work on wells and pumps, septic systems, gas lines, electrical connections and permitted plumbing belongs to licensed people. Where a page touches on that kind of work, it says so and points to the right license class, which you can check on the Contractors State License Board site. For anything urgent, such as a gas smell, a carbon monoxide alarm or a fire, leave first and call 911 from outside.
The site's ownership, and how links to related businesses are marked, are set out on the page about who owns this site.