Hi Ken; we had this problem with the iron bacteria where I used to
live. Since it was necessary to pump the water 280 feet plus vertical to
the storage tank for the uphill people on the spring, I rigged a spray
(smashed 1/4" copper tube end, creative vise-gripping) from the output side
back into the spring. This broke up the colonies, stirred and aereated the
spring water, and worked pretty well as long as the copper tube end was
reworked every coupla weeks; it tended to plug up otherwise. Previous
water-lackey had used bleach once a week, which would turn Kool-aid
absolutely clear in about 5 minutes for the next day. I think your air
injection would work very well.
Take care, Malcolm
At 08:17 AM 2/17/04 -0500, you wrote:
Not quite as mixed up as somewhat ignorant.
I have only observations to go by as any info I've found on the subject
starts at chlorine injection and ends with 'Pay me for chemicals and
equipment while you deal with chemicals in your water that are worse than
the bacteria'
Thanks Dude!
The majority of minerals in this area are red clay [iron], quartz and
chist [sedimentary]
BTW, since dumping a gallon of CS into the well, the majority oof deposits
left over from boiling have changed from red to mostly white [calcium
probably] as it was before the rock quarry [granite] re-opened.
I'm a little concerned about what's going on in the septic tank with all
that CS in the water.
The change may have something to do with how cold it is lately too.
Do you think that bubbling air through the water while it's in the well
will take the bacterium out of the cycle? 129 PSI is fairly easily do-able.
The county, in it's wisdom, has decided over protestation that the jumbo
jet capable airport [for the 5 small airplanes in this, the smallest county
in the state], they built within the sphere of influence of RDU
International [so radar can't be used], on land previously owned by the
county officials, who also make up the local FAA committee, is to be
accompanied by a chlorine/flouride loaded county water system which we get
to pay for whether it gets used or not...already installed but not operable
for over a year.
OH well, at least my property values [taxes] have gone up, as promised,
despite the increase in noise from having all 5 of those airplanes flying
around and around the 100 million dollar airport on Sundays while my old
sports car club gets to use the old airport to play on.
...and it's snowing AGAIN!
jg [just gotta] LOL ;-)
Ode
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