The University of Illinois if offering a free, online class for private well owners with funding from the Environmental Protection Agency through a grant to the Rural Community Assistance Partnership. The course is intended to help homeowners understand and care for their water well.

The class is set up to be self-help over 10 weeks, with materials emailed once a week to participants. Well owners can sign up anytime, and though the first week will be sent on Jan 1, 2013, anyone signing up after that will start as soon as they sign up.

So, someone just finding out about this in April can sign up and start the class then. There are three webinars that will provide well owners a chance to reinforce what they are seeing in the class material and ask questions of the presenters.

Each webinar will be repeated every three months through August 2013, so no matter when someone starts the class, they will be able to see all three at least once.

Additional details about this training opportunity are available at the websites: smallwatersupply.org and privatewellclass.org.