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PART 1 - Heavy Iron in our Well problems + How to Sanitize a Well

Things got a bit more complicated.

Bacteria was found in our well.


PART 2 of this thread is the journey to rid coliform/e-coli out of the well forever.

Melensdad

Thread 'PART 2 - Bacteria in our Well Water - new AquaSure UV Filter'

So I've been working on the water softener, iron filter, RO filtration, etc. Basically put in all new stuff (softener and iron filtration system), and all new guts for RO system, including changing out some of the hoses and faucet.

Just for the heck of it had the well sanitized. Then had the water tested 7 days later.

We are under a BOIL ORDER because we have coliform bacteria in our well.

So this afternoon we "shocked the hell" out of the well, as opposed to just shocking it. There are ways to measure the amount of chlorine concentration in your well when you shock it, and...
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After finding Bacteria (coliform & e-coli) we then found ARSENIC which resulted in PART 3

Melensdad

Thread 'PART 3 - Safe Levels of Arsenic in Well Water ... What would you do?'

So in the never ending saga of my 31 year old well water situation, yet another problem has come up.

I have Arsenic in my water.

I was told that IRON and ARSONIC are commonly found together so anyone with high levels of IRON should also test for ARSONIC but that very few people do so.

Government says the safe level is under 10ppm.
I have 9.45ppm of Arsenic in my water.

So technically my water is "safe" but it is clearly at the upper limits of what is considered safe.


PART 1 of our well issue started out as just IRON problems and then devolved.
LINK TO PART 1: New water...
 
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