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Posted by Frank on December 3, 2006, 3:04 pm
dougb@abnat.com wrote:
> We bought this house about 1.5 years ago, the owner just drank the
> water out of the tap, and it looked nice & clear. My diagonal neighbor
> just dug a well about 500-600 feet away from ours and on the day they
> hit clean water, ours got lots of sediment and disolved clay & The
> screens on faucets & the washing machine & the Britta faucet filter we
> installed (for drinking water) in the house got all clogged up that
> day. After a few days the water became clearer but still has a good
> amount of sediment in it.The neighbor told me that they hit muddy water
> at 140 ft. (the evidence was on the ground) and then hard rock at about
> 200 ft. At 270 feet they hit the cleaner water. he also told me the
> used a 4" hole until they hit hard rock & then went to a 3" hole &
> initially when they hit water at 270 feet that that water was also
> somewhat muddy, so the well driller said the seal between the 3" & 4"
> pipes was leaking & then he repaired it (how? I do not know). anyway,
> now we have this problem of sediment & some clay disolve in our water.
> After about 5 days I installed a sediment filter after the pump &
> Bladder tank and it does collect sediment, but you can see that are
> smaller particles getting through. The britta faucet filter now clogs
> up very fast, just a couple of days (not good at $15 each!). I talked
> to 1 well driller & he told me to drain the bladder tank several times
> and see if that clears up the sediment. I did it about 15 times, and
> there was a lot of clay/sediment initially an gradually decreased to
> just a little bit, but would not go completely away. Now we also have a
> bunch of air coming through the lines. What to do? There seem to be
> plenty of water still coming from the pump, the other day I ran 2 hoses
> continually outside for over an hour with no problems and lot of
> pressure. It has been about 3.5 weeks since this has started and the
> sediment is still coming.
> Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you.
Hopefully will settle down with time. I've seen this when neighbor
just replaced his pump.
Whole house sediment filter is a good idea anyway as we had minor
sediment from well but it would gradually build, dirtying toilet tanks,
etc. I'm down to a filter change every 6 months and toilets are
cleaner. There are cheaper ways to filter water, like the pitcher
filters and you can buy bottled in large containers. Water taste was
off with neighbor incident and we had another bad taste occurence when
our own pump needed changing. I believe there are triple type filters:
rough sediment, fine sediment and carbon, but they cost more and may be
over-kill.
Frank
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