Timeline for What's the best way to reduce odor in my well water?
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| Feb 23, 2018 at 18:04 | comment | added | bitsmack | Replacing the tank fixed it, though. We never had to disinfect the well or the plumbing. | |
| Feb 23, 2018 at 18:03 | comment | added | bitsmack | The house I grew up in developed smelly well water over a couple of years. It was a failed bladder in the tank, as you said. We cut the old tank open, and OMG!! I can't describe how foul it was! One of the worse things I have seen, given that we had been drinking the water... | |
| Feb 23, 2018 at 15:15 | comment | added | Ed Beal | You go your route I will do it the way. my well testing guy showed me this method. the issue is in the well and pressure tank that is eliminated with flow. Putting a high concentration of bleach in the pressure tank will shorten the bladder life. | |
| Feb 23, 2018 at 14:55 | comment | added | Ecnerwal | Actually you dump bleach in the well while recirculating water down the well with a hose, and run until you smell beach at the hose. Then run water at every faucet until you smell bleach, THEN wait several hours or overnight, then flush it out. You have to disinfect the whole pump/piping system, not just the well itself. And a few days of regular use later, you pull a sample and send it to a certified testing laboratory. [Having killed any temporary infestations in the pipes, you need to see what's in the water itself.) | |
| Feb 23, 2018 at 14:26 | history | answered | Ed Beal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |