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Richard Fazio

02-06-2006 10:49:56




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I know this has been talked about here but my search comes up empty. I had the well water tested on my new house. The report came back and said the well had some bacteria and needed to be shocked. The well is 75 ft deep. How much chlorox or chlorine do I need to pour down there to shock it? What's the procedure? Thanks for any help.




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MarkB_MI

02-07-2006 20:19:12




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 Re: O/T Well question in reply to Richard Fazio, 02-06-2006 10:49:56  
This is best done when the missus isn't home.

First, if you have a water softener, switch it to bypass. Bleach isn't good for the resin bed.

Dump about a gallon of bleach down the well. Then take your garden hose, and run water down the well until you smell a strong bleach scent. Run water down the well for awhile, trying to wash all the inside pipe surface. Be careful not to electrocute yourself by shorting out the pump wires.

After you've circulated the well, turn on all the taps in the house until you smell bleach coming out all of them. It will take quite a bit to treat the hot water, so you might as well turn off the water heater.

Once you smell bleach at each faucet, leave for the day. (If you can't smell the bleach, you didn't use enough.) Come back eight hours later and start running your garden hose until the bleach smell is gone. Then start flushing out the inside taps. Note that this may kick loose a lot of rust; take the screens out of the faucets so they don't plug up. Once the bleach smell is mostly gone you should be all set.

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don t-9n180179

02-07-2006 11:16:24




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 Re: O/T Well question in reply to Richard Fazio, 02-06-2006 10:49:56  
Do you have an inline filter? or what I call a whole house water filter? If so, this might be your problem. If you've got a filter that contains charcoal, remove it prior to shocking. CRS has a good hold today, but if I recall correctly, bleach and charcoal are not the best to mix. HTH....don t. ....



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Leland

02-07-2006 09:03:03




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 Re: O/T Well question in reply to Richard Fazio, 02-06-2006 10:49:56  
I have a 3' by 18' well holds about a 1000 gals health dept said 4 gallons of bleach to shock , and I just turned on the hose and let the very bleachy water trickle down around case wokred great then I had to pump well dry let it run down road and hauled a couple of loads of city water ,you can't use well water with that muck bleach in it .



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workhorse

02-07-2006 05:43:10




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 Re: O/T Well question in reply to Richard Fazio, 02-06-2006 10:49:56  
In addition to treating the water in the well casing, you need to treat the water outside the casing and in the waterbearing formation. To do this, after pouring your solution down the well, mix the same concentration in four 5 gal buckets and pour them down also. This will raise the static water level and force the solution through the perforated caseing or well screen to Kill any bacatera hiding on the outside of the caseing.Also make sure your wellseal is in good shape to prevent contamanation from the surface.Also as stated before, if there is an underground source the problem will come back.

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jdemaris

02-06-2006 17:33:13




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 Shocking is often a waste of time in reply to Richard Fazio, 02-06-2006 10:49:56  
In many situations, shocking the well does not gain you anything in the long run. We
always treated wells when we first drilled them, or later when doing a repair. That, in
case of any contamination that might have gotten in while working on it. But, a an
undisturbed well that starts showing an unacceptable bacteria count usually is polluted by
a steady source coming in somewhere, like run-off from a nearby farm, or septic systems. I live in a rural area, but even so, any areas where there are houses close together, the
wells ALL have high bacteria counts. In that situation, the only people that benefit from
"shocking" are the Realtors, or people selling their houses. Shocking the well gets it to
pass an inspection, but just temporarily.

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TomR Ont

02-06-2006 15:15:05




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 Re: O/T Well question in reply to Richard Fazio, 02-06-2006 10:49:56  
I had a bacteria failure a few years ago, the cause was I didn't take out the strainer on the tap, apparently some bacteria can be on the screen and in the pipes and show a higher but false reading. I took in another sample for testing and it was Ok.



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Richard Fazio

02-06-2006 14:47:44




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 Re: O/T Well question in reply to Richard Fazio, 02-06-2006 10:49:56  
Thanks for the info guys. I wouldn't have thought of not letting it run into the septic. I would have, and killed everything. Sounds easy enough to me. Thanks again.



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toolman

02-06-2006 13:33:35




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 Re: O/T Well question in reply to Richard Fazio, 02-06-2006 10:49:56  
what they mean about shocking the well is adding some chorline(bleach) non scented, let it sit overnight, then pump the well either with a external pump or if you have a small casing and a deep wellpump hook a garden hose to an outside tap and stick in back in the well casing, that is called shocking,cycling the water back in the casing some for a while, let this go for a hour or two, also the night before run all taps inside until you smell the bleach too, and let it sit overnight as well. after 24 hours start pumpimg your well until the water is free of the bleach smell(just pump in out on the ground), run your taps also try and not get any bleach into your septic, a couple of buckets full of tap water will usually clear your lines,a pain but better than having it in the sectic, once the water runs clear of any bleach smell your done should have it checked again , just to be safe.

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deib

02-06-2006 12:44:42




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 Re: O/T Well question in reply to Richard Fazio, 02-06-2006 10:49:56  
If you are on a septic system pump the well to waste not thru the septic cause it will kill the baterial action in your septic. it should set at least 24 hour before you pump it for a good kill .
Deib



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PayP(MI)

02-06-2006 14:45:57




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 Re: O/T Well question in reply to deib, 02-06-2006 12:44:42  
A gallon or two of bleach dumped in 500 to 1000 gallons of septic won't do much damage. Way too dilute, especially since you're telling to flush the system until bleach is undetectable in water. A lot of the bleach will be used up in the process too. Same thing in regard to your laundry, bleach added to your wash will be used up and diluted in the process. You'd be amazed how fast a colony of bacteria like that in a septic will regenerate.

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Jimmy King

02-06-2006 11:20:37




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 Re: O/T Well question in reply to Richard Fazio, 02-06-2006 10:49:56  
If you can find them the clorine pills are best then pour a gal of clorox down the well, as well. A gal. will work usually, then run water out to each outlet and let it set over night. Jim



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