I have to shock my well twice a year for iron bacteria.
I have found that swimming pool chlorine is better than chlorox as it
doesn't have quite the soapy feel to it that lasts for several days.
About a half cup will do.
Dissolve it in water and put it into a garden sprayer set on fine
mist. Insert the nozzel into the vent on top of the well and let er
rip. The mist will sterilize the casing as well as the water.
Open all the faucets one by one and let the water run till you detect
chlorine, shut it off, then go to the next one. Let it sit like that
overnight, then open the outdoor spigots till you don't detect chlorine,
then open the indoor faucets.
It's best to throw that water outside rather than let it get into your
septic system.
Ken
At 09:53 AM 2/28/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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
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