Journeyman Well Driller – Water Supply Licensure Examination — Information & Free Practice
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Journeyman Well Driller – Water Supply Licensure Examination
- Provider
- Maryland State Board of Well Drillers
- Format
- Written; exceptional oral accommodation requires prior Board approval
- Time limit
- 2026 scheduled examinations: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
- Passing score
- 70 percent
- Exam fee
- $75 for each examination
Examination outline
Terms-to-know/Vocabulary
- Confined/unconfined aquifers
- Activated-carbon filters
- Domestic yield test
- Types of wells
- Pumping water level
- Yield
- Potable water
- Static water level
- Drawdown
- Recovery
- Maximum yield
- Hydrologic cycle
- Water mining
- Groundwater recharge
- Annular velocity
- pH
- Storage capacity
- Fishing
- Horizontal/vertical lengths of suction pipe
- Uses of Barite
- Types of valves
- Cross connection
- Artificial gravel-packing
- Formation permeability
- Pitless adapter
- Recovery test
Calculations/Conversions
- Maximum yield
- Air measurements (Volume & Pressure units)
- Parts per million to grains per gallon
- Pressure in a tank
- Volume of a well’s annular space
- Psi to feet of lift water
State Regulations
- Procedures of properly developing a water well
- Transferring permits
- Hydrogeologic Areas 1-5
- Seal
- Abandonment
- Casing
- Grouting
- Emergency well permit
- Approval of domestic water supply system
- Disinfection/chlorination
- Location/consumption of potable water well
- Siting a well
- Well completion report
- Well permit
- “Miss Utility”
- Well log information
Safety
- Clothing
- Causes of electrocution
- Acetylene torches
- Ear protection standards by MOSHA
Electrical
- Submersible pump installation
Chemistry
- Causes of hardness in water
- pH
- Free chlorine residual
- Controls of groundwater quality
- Differences of Hypo, Super, Residual, and Breakpoint Chlorination
Examination sources
- Undated current Board-published Journeyman Well Driller – Water Supply Licensure Study Topics
Published study-guide title, page 1
- COMAR 26.05.02.04; current codification; chapter adopted December 24, 1990
COMAR 26.05.02.04E: technical knowledge and Maryland law
- Undated current Board-published Journeyman Well Driller – Water Supply Licensure Study Topics
Published section heading: Terms-to-know/Vocabulary
- Undated current Board-published Journeyman Well Driller – Water Supply Licensure Study Topics
Published section heading: Calculations/Conversions
- Undated current Board-published Journeyman Well Driller – Water Supply Licensure Study Topics
Published section heading: State Regulations
- Undated current Board-published Journeyman Well Driller – Water Supply Licensure Study Topics
Published section heading: Safety
- Undated current Board-published Journeyman Well Driller – Water Supply Licensure Study Topics
Published section heading: Electrical
- Undated current Board-published Journeyman Well Driller – Water Supply Licensure Study Topics
Published section heading: Chemistry
- COMAR 26.05.02.04; current codification; chapter adopted December 24, 1990
COMAR 26.05.02.04B: written format and exceptional oral accommodation
- COMAR 26.05.02.04; current codification; chapter adopted December 24, 1990
COMAR 26.05.02.04F: 70 percent passing score
- Environment Article section 13-304; official codified text applicable September 22, 2026
Environment Article 13-304(d): Board controls scope, form and scoring
- Application revised September 2024; current Board-linked form
Application page 1 of 6, II: separate examination class and category selections
- Application revised September 2024; current Board-linked form
Instructions page 1, items 1 and 2: separate application and fee for each examination
- 2026 examination schedule; dates are testing appointments, not version validity dates
2026 schedule: location and four-hour examination appointment