Monitoring, maintenance and rehabilitation of water supply boreholes

This report provides good practice guidance on borehole monitoring, maintenance, rehabilitation and design and construction to optimise water supply from groundwater sources. It encourages a co-ordinated approach to borehole managements by relating borehole performance to the condition of the abstraction system and to physical, chemical and microbial processes. An understanding of these processes helps borehole operators to decide what, where and how to monitor, how to interpret results, and which maintenance or rehabilitation strategy to adopt.