ALAN CLOUGH wrote: > Hi a friend is in the process of selling their house and in > testing the drilled 250' deep well it has come up with a higher than > acceptable level of bacteria . A well company is planning to shock > the well with Chlorine which will cost them around $300 dollars . > > > What! That is a rip off. Around here the well is shocked by putting a > couple of cups of Chlorox into the well, letting it sit a while then > pumping it until the Chlorine is gone. Total cost about $1. > > Search the net, there are a number of sites that tell you how much > Chlorox to add for how deep the water is in the well and the diameter > of the caseing. > > > I wonder if there is a way that a few gallons of CS could have be > used ? . They think that the well might have got contaminated by > surface water that got in when the well head casing was damaged by > a riding lawn mower and later repaired . I checked the archives but > the post that came up about polluted wells seem to be suggesting > using some sort of water treatment filters. Anyone have any > experience using CS for this purpose? Thanks Alan
Legally I think you have to use chlorine, and Chlorox is cheap, so why bother with the CS. Of course CS could be added as well, but it might not be legal alone. Marshall
