Posted by eastexan on January 06, 2010 at 11:34:32 from (96.15.42.111):
In Reply to: Let there be water. posted by GordoSD on January 04, 2010 at 19:59:42:
kenstrac said: (quoted from post at 07:08:58 01/05/10) When you pull a well line out you lay it on the ground that is not sanitary and you put it back into well you must sanitize it with bleach or you could contaminate the well and all the lines in the house.
When I first moved on my place 3 years ago, the well water smelled like a sewer. It's a shallow well about 30" wide and 50' deep.
The guy I bought it from said the water was bad and had hooked his house up to the county water system. But he was still using the well to water his garden.
Since the water smelled like a sewer, I had thought that whoever installed the septic tank had installed a lateral line too close to the well.
It smelled so bad that I didn't want to even use it for watering the grass or garden.
Someone told me to try "shocking" the well by pouring bleach in it.
I thought that at least it would probably make the water smell better for a little while. So I poured 2 gallons of bleach in it and after checking it several days later, it had cleaned right up.
Now it's been 3 years and has never gotten contaminated again, so I assume it hadn't been contaminated by the septic tank, but by surface water or something else introducing bacteria into it.
It still looks and smells clean. But I still need to have it tested to make sure it's safe to drink, in case we should ever need to use it for sanitary water. I've never had a well get contaminated before. But I know now that even though it's rare, it can happen.
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