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Bacterial build-up in water supply pipe.... None 10-09-2007
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Posted by None on October 9, 2007, 12:00 pm
Hello,

We have had serious problems the last while with a bacterial growth in
our rising main (service pipe) that feeds water into our house. There
are often black particles in the water, these are organic, and not
sediment or plastic or anything. They seem to be the root of the
problem. Does anyone know how I might be able to perhaps air scour and
disinfect this pipe run? It would be about 25 feet long. We are on
mains water by the way.


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Posted by Joseph Meehan on October 9, 2007, 1:16 pm


> Hello,
>
> We have had serious problems the last while with a bacterial growth in
> our rising main (service pipe) that feeds water into our house. There
> are often black particles in the water, these are organic, and not
> sediment or plastic or anything. They seem to be the root of the
> problem. Does anyone know how I might be able to perhaps air scour and
> disinfect this pipe run? It would be about 25 feet long. We are on
> mains water by the way.
>

Do you know for a fact that the water in the main is free of the
contamination? I would suspect that it is coming from there. Why would it
just happen in you supply? Are any of your neighbors having a like problem.
How have you determined that the particles are organic and have you
determined what kind of organic?

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia 's Muire duit




Posted by None on November 7, 2007, 10:36 am
>
>
> > Hello,
>
> > We have had serious problems the last while with a bacterial growth in
> > our rising main (service pipe) that feeds water into our house. There
> > are often black particles in the water, these are organic, and not
> > sediment or plastic or anything. They seem to be the root of the
> > problem. Does anyone know how I might be able to perhaps air scour and
> > disinfect this pipe run? It would be about 25 feet long. We are on
> > mains water by the way.
>
> Do you know for a fact that the water in the main is free of the
> contamination? I would suspect that it is coming from there. Why would it
> just happen in you supply? Are any of your neighbors having a like problem.
> How have you determined that the particles are organic and have you
> determined what kind of organic?
>
> --
> Joseph Meehan
>
> Dia 's Muire duit

The problem is that the street I am on is fed in two directions by the
water. The road is not levelled out either, we are on quite a steep
dip, so the two feeds are always 'colliding' outside my house, with
any sediment and dirt picked up along the way by the two flows having
nowhere to end up but my kitchen! Basically, the water does not move
along continuously. The water depot wont help me on this one either,
they feign ignorance.


Posted by on November 7, 2007, 10:55 am
So what makes you think that "disinfecting" the pipe is going to help?

If the sediment is coming from the city water supply, it's going to
keep coming no matter what you do to your feed.

Either give up and buy a whole-house water purification system (Hey
Culligan Man!) or get a lawyer.


Posted by None on November 7, 2007, 11:03 am
On 7 Nov, 15:55, mkirs...@rochester.rr.com wrote:
> So what makes you think that "disinfecting" the pipe is going to help?
>
> If the sediment is coming from the city water supply, it's going to
> keep coming no matter what you do to your feed.
>
> Either give up and buy a whole-house water purification system (Hey
> Culligan Man!) or get a lawyer.

Well, if you checked the dates of my posts, you would see a month gap.
In that time, I've kind of put the notion of 'disinfecting' my service
pipe to bed.


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