nightshade
Lovin' The Homestead
okay so we get the well at our new place and are greatly relived to have 20 gal a minute and not be down that far. We are 160ft which 140 of casing in gravel. We figured that it would be cloudy til the sand veins cleared out so at first weren't really concerned with the color. We ran it for a week 3-4 hours a day trying to clear it up before we got the okay to move in on Tuesday. It was still a little cloudy from time to time but did not look bad out of the hose so no worries.
Well we move in and discover that the crew setting up the house opened the lines to the whole place before they were ever flushed, big mess. SO this hid the issue on us for two days. Yesterday was the first we had even tried to use the water for anything besides try to run it clear. This is when we figured out that it has a lot of iron in it. Like turn the tub orange lot in it. Now it is not always that way.
Over the past two days we have watched it vary from barely cloudy but still has the irony taste my hubby remembers from the farm he grew up at as a kid and I remember from my Pappy's farm. To the turn the tub orange strength.
The well guys came out this morning and got a sample to test to see what exactly we are looking at and what we can do about it. IT was practically crystal clear when he was there. I told him " you should have been here at 5 this morning when I wanted to take a bath and it was orange, then you would have gotten a good sample" He just looked at me funny looked at the "clear" sample in his hand. And replied " well this will tell us if there "is" anything going on" Errr
Anyway does anyone have any suggestions on types of filters ect. that would work well with iron concentrations? I know that there is know way I can hook up a washer with water that one minute can be perfectly clear and the next bright iron oxide orange.
I would really appreciate any advice before Mr. fix it shows back up and tries to feed me a line of bull. :/
Well we move in and discover that the crew setting up the house opened the lines to the whole place before they were ever flushed, big mess. SO this hid the issue on us for two days. Yesterday was the first we had even tried to use the water for anything besides try to run it clear. This is when we figured out that it has a lot of iron in it. Like turn the tub orange lot in it. Now it is not always that way.
Over the past two days we have watched it vary from barely cloudy but still has the irony taste my hubby remembers from the farm he grew up at as a kid and I remember from my Pappy's farm. To the turn the tub orange strength.
The well guys came out this morning and got a sample to test to see what exactly we are looking at and what we can do about it. IT was practically crystal clear when he was there. I told him " you should have been here at 5 this morning when I wanted to take a bath and it was orange, then you would have gotten a good sample" He just looked at me funny looked at the "clear" sample in his hand. And replied " well this will tell us if there "is" anything going on" Errr
Anyway does anyone have any suggestions on types of filters ect. that would work well with iron concentrations? I know that there is know way I can hook up a washer with water that one minute can be perfectly clear and the next bright iron oxide orange.
I would really appreciate any advice before Mr. fix it shows back up and tries to feed me a line of bull. :/