Picture Credits

The real photographs on this site come from Wikimedia Commons, including public-domain photos from U.S. government agencies, and are used under the licences shown. Each one is credited below with its creator and the name of its licence. Some pictures are photo-realistic images made with AI rather than taken with a camera; those are labelled as AI-generated where they appear. Maker logos visible on equipment in any picture have been blurred or cropped out.

Photographs

• Older mint-green truck carrying a yellow folded drilling mast and rig machinery, parked in a grassy pasture under a clear blue sky. Used on Drilling a New Well: Permits, Standards and the Paperwork After. By USDA NRCS Texas, Public domain, original file. Cropped and partly blurred.
• Close view at ground level of a black drip irrigation line releasing water into a small puddle beside a young grapevine with bright green leaves, vine stakes in rows behind. Used on Boron in the Well: No Legal Limit, but Vines Notice. By Lynn Betts, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Public domain, original file. Cropped.
• Rows of grapevines running over a rolling hill, with a tree trunk in the foreground and drip lines along the trellis wires under a clear sky. Used on The Paso Robles Groundwater Basin, in Plain Numbers. By Pasowine, CC BY-SA 4.0, original file. Cropped.
• Green plastic lids and an equipment housing of a septic treatment unit set in a strip of bare soil in a lawn, with a white vent pipe elbow rising at the right. Used on Where New North County Homes Need Nitrogen-Reducing Septic Systems. By Wikideas1, CC0 1.0, original file. Cropped and partly blurred.
• A lake well below its normal level, with wide bands of bare tan shoreline under oak- and pine-covered hills and dry brush in the foreground. Used on Stretching a Private Well Through the Dry Years. By Thomson200, CC0 1.0, original file. Cropped.
• Hazy aerial view of dry tan hills and a block of irrigated farm fields along a valley, with more fields and ridges fading into the distance. Used on The Basin Under Our Feet, and the Rules Above It. By Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, original file. Cropped.
• Round moss-spotted concrete septic tank lid with two metal lifting handles and a short vent pipe, set among dry tan grass beside a fallen evergreen branch. Used on Septic: The System Under Every Ranch-House Yard. By W.carter, CC0 1.0, original file. Cropped.
• Curved stone-and-mortar wall of an old round ranch water storage tank shaded by a mesquite tree, with grass, rocks and a barbed-wire fence alongside. Used on Tanks and Pumps: The Plumbing Between the Well and the Tap. By USDA NRCS Texas, Public domain, original file. Cropped.
• Large spreading oak over tall dry summer grass, with a pile of fallen dead branches beneath it and a wire fence in front. Used on Fire and Drought. By Z3lvs, CC0 1.0, original file. Cropped.
• Weathered white board-and-batten ranch house with a hipped shingle roof and a small outbuilding, set against a dry golden hillside above a stubble field. Used on In the House: Heaters, Hard Water, Old Pipes and Propane. By Los Angeles, CC BY-SA 3.0, original file. Cropped.
• Rows of leafy green grapevines on a gentle slope with drip lines, a large oak and wooded hills behind under a pale blue sky. Used on Town by Town: Who Supplies the Water, and From Where. By Agne27, CC BY-SA 3.0, original file. Cropped.

AI-generated pictures

• Galvanized steel well casing with a bolted cap and electrical conduit on a square concrete pad, a wooden pump shed with a gray pressure tank and a rail fence behind, oak-dotted golden hills beyond. Used on Living on a Private Well: What the Owner Answers For. AI-generated picture.
• Blue steel pressure tank on a concrete plinth inside a wooden pump house, with a pressure gauge, gray pressure switch box, brass ball valve and copper and white PVC piping; dry grass and oaks through the open door. Used on How the Well Pump and Pressure Tank Share the Work. AI-generated picture.
• Brass faucet on a pipe beside a weathered well casing dribbling a thin broken stream into a galvanized bucket on dusty ground, with parched grass and oak trees behind. Used on When a Well Runs Low: Signs, First Steps and Reporting. AI-generated picture.
• Hands filling a small clear sample bottle from a brass tap on a galvanized well casing, an open cooler with blue ice packs below, oak-studded golden hills in the background. Used on How to Test a Private Well in North County, and How Often. AI-generated picture.
• Blue-gloved hands holding a small glass vial of clear water beside a white rack of capped sample vials and plain white sample bottles on a laboratory bench. Used on Arsenic in North County Wells: The Limit, the Test, the Fix. AI-generated picture.
• A glass of tap water, an empty baby bottle and a small white sample bottle with a blank label on a wooden kitchen counter, oak-dotted golden hills through the window. Used on Nitrate in Rural Wells: Why Babies Come First. AI-generated picture.
• Domestic well casing with a domed cap on a concrete pad, its outlet pipe fitted with a brass inline water meter with a blank dial, beside a board-and-batten ranch house with oaks and golden hills behind. Used on Household Wells and the Basin Rules: What the Exemption Covers. AI-generated picture.
• Freshly framed single-storey house with roof trusses on a graded dirt lot, a newly capped well casing in the foreground, gravel piles, oaks and golden hills behind. Used on Building in the Paso Basin: County Limits and the State Well Order. AI-generated picture.
• Several round tan plastic septic access risers with lids set in a gravel yard beside a newer white rural house, a gray control box on a post, oaks and dry hills behind. Used on How Septic Systems Work on Rural North County Lots. AI-generated picture.
• A patch of unusually bright green grass with puddles of standing water in an otherwise dry tan yard, two round septic lids at ground level, a house corner and oak trees behind. Used on When a Septic System Starts to Fail, the Yard Usually Says So. AI-generated picture.
• Two large tan polyethylene water tanks with screened domed lids on a gravel pad cut into a hillside, white PVC lines running down the slope toward a ranch house among oaks and golden hills. Used on The Water Tank on the Hill: What Rural Owners Should Know. AI-generated picture.
• Small blue electric booster pump with a compact blue pressure tank, gray pressure switch and brass and PVC fittings on a concrete pad under a wooden lean-to beside a large tan water tank, wooded hills behind. Used on Booster Pumps: Getting Tank Water Back to the House. AI-generated picture.
• Red steel fire water standpipe with a capped brass hose outlet on a concrete pad by a gravel drive, piped to a large tan water storage tank under oak trees. Used on How Much Water a Rural Home Must Hold Back for Fire. AI-generated picture.
• Single-storey ranch house with a metal roof and covered porch, surrounded by a wide cleared zone of short dry grass and gravel, oaks limbed up high, a green hose on a wall reel, tall golden grass and oak hills beyond. Used on Defensible Space and Water Around a Paso Robles Ranch House. AI-generated picture.
• Portable generator standing alone on a gravel pad in an open dry field, with a ranch house far off under oaks and golden hills. Used on When the Power Goes Out, So Does the Well. AI-generated picture.
• Gray tank-type gas water heater on a raised platform in a garage corner, held by two metal straps bolted to the wall, with a relief valve and copper discharge pipe running down its side and a yellow flexible gas connector. Used on Hard Water and the Water Heater: What Owners Can Safely Do. AI-generated picture.
• Blue-gray water softener resin tank and brine tank on a garage floor, with two clear sediment filter housings on a wall bracket and copper and blue PEX piping with ball valves. Used on Softeners and Filters on a Well: Test First, Then Treat. AI-generated picture.
• Crawlspace under an older house with rusted galvanized pipes crusted white at the joints, newer copper pipe with a brass ball valve, and red and blue PEX lines along the floor joists, lit by a work light. Used on Plumbing in an Older Ranch House: Pipes, Valves and Permits. AI-generated picture.
• White horizontal propane tank on a concrete pad in a cleared gravel area, set well away from a single-storey rural house under oaks. Used on Smell Propane? Leave First, Then Call 911 From Outside. AI-generated picture.
• Old steel farm windmill over a capped well casing beside a round galvanized stock tank in a golden pasture with valley oaks. Used on The Private Well, From the Wellhead to the Pressure Tank. AI-generated picture.
• Hand holding a glass under a chrome kitchen faucet as it fills, tiled counter and potted herbs, a window behind looking out on oak trees and golden hills. Used on What Is in the Water Under North County Homes. AI-generated picture.
• Four weathered metal rural mailboxes on a wooden rail post beside a gravel ranch road winding between oak trees into golden hills. Used on About These Pages. AI-generated picture.