The Carbon County Environmental Education Center, in conjunction with the Keystone Clean Water Team, is offering a low-cost well-water testing opportunity for area residents.

Test kits are available now for pick-up at CCEEC. Homeowners may collect water samples, then return them from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, where environmental consultant and hydrogeologist Brian Oram will perform certain tests immediately.Other results will be mailed confidentially within two weeks.Two testing options are available: a $50 test includes total coliform, pH, iron and other parameters, and a more comprehensive test is available for $95.Homeowners with private wells are encouraged to test their water at least once each year. Area residents whose property might be impacted by any future development should consider testing to establish a baseline of well water quality.For more information on this program, call CCEEC at 570-645-8597. The center is located at the west end of Mauch Chunk Lake Park, just outside Jim Thorpe, at 151 E. White Bear Drive in Summit Hill.