Water Well Driller/Pump Installer
- Exam
- State exam
- Education
- None
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- Specific type of conviction prohibited
Well drillers engage in the drilling, coring, boring, or construction of any water well, monitoring well, dewatering well, and certain injection wells. Drillers operate portable drilling rigs, maintain drill bits and equipment, and record drilling progress and geological data. Drillers must submit copies of well logs to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. At least one person must be licensed on the drilling site at all times. Water well pump installers engage in the placement and preparation for operation of equipment and materials used to obtain water from a well. This includes the installation of pumping equipment in new water wells, repairing existing pumps, and establishing seals and safeguards as necessary to protect the groundwater from contamination.
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Stand-alone license
- Exam
- State exam required
- Education
- No education required
- Continuing education
- Continuing education required
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- Specific type of conviction prohibited
- Physical requirement
- No physical requirements
Issuing body
- Department
- Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation
- Address
- PO Box 12157 Austin, TX 78711
- Phone
- (512) 463-6599
- Agency website
- https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/
- Licence page
- https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/wwd/wwd.htm
- Last updated
- August 10, 2023
Occupations (O*NET)
- Plumber 47-2152.00
- Well Driller 47-5023.00
Source and verification
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