What is Wellogic?

Wellogic is the internet-based data entry program developed by the state of Michigan to provide an easy method for water well drilling and pump installation contractors to submit water well records. Electronic well record submittal satisfies state and county well record submittal requirements.

Well records contained in Wellkey (the old statewide groundwater database which is no longer in use) were migrated into Wellogic. In addition, records from January 2000 and later are being entered into Wellogic by contractors, local health departments, and the DEQ. Both water well and pump records and abandoned well plugging records are being entered into the database. Geotechnical (monitoring) wells are also being entered by contractors.

Among the key benefits of Wellogic are:

• The handling, transfer, and storage of paper well records are eliminated.
• Quick well record completion due to pick-lists featuring commonly used water supply construction terms.
• Users can retrieve records by address, owner's name, installation date, contractors name, other data fields, or through wildcard searches.
• The program structure reduces data entry errors, improves data quality, and reduces the time spent on data review.
• Well record data is much more accessible and useful.
• Contractors save time and money because they no longer need to visit their local health department to review well records.
• Global positioning system data (latitude and longitude coordinates) can be imported so that accurate well location data is obtained.
• Wellogic interfaces with geographic information system software so that well locations can be presented to the user on detailed maps.

Data gathered with Wellogic is currently being used in many other applications throughout the state.  The data was an integral part of the Groundwater Inventory and Mapping Project (GWIM) and is currently being used in the Michigan Interactive Groundwater for Wellhead Protection (MIGWWP) project.  Having standardized data like that in Wellogic is an important part of developing programs to protect our water supplies from potential sources of contamination.

Use of the Wellogic program is voluntary. A user ID and password are assigned to each user. Access to Wellogic is restricted to the following individuals who work with well records on a daily basis: water well drilling and pump installation contractors, local health departments, state of Michigan employees, GEM centers, level of effort contractors, consultants. To obtain a Wellogic user account click here, or for additional information, please contact the Wellogic Staff at wellogic@michigan.gov. If you are a current Wellogic user, click here to log in.