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1. 
   Stray | Sep 19, 2006 07:00pm | #1

   I'm no expert, just have one at a rental house that was there whaen I bought it.

   I hav a resovoir (food grade trash can/lid) with a small injector pump that comes on simultaniously with the well pump.  Then a storage tank (mebe 200gal), then a charcoal filter which takes most of the chlorination back out before distribution tothe house.

   For the most part it's trouble free.  Some maintenance in monitoring CL levels, filling the resovoir, etc...

   Are you trying to treat for taste, bacteria, both?  Mayvb3e one here with more info will chime in.

   Ithaca, NY  "10 square miles, surrounded by reality"

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   fingers | Sep 20, 2006 12:46am | #2

   As someone said, what are you doing this for?  Bacteria?  Iron?  Taste?  Piece of mind?

   I had a well with very high iron content and got a couple of system quotes from some water treatment companies.

   The first guy wanted to put an automatic tablet dispenser on the top of the well.  I'm not sure how it sensed the volume draw but you filled it with chlorine tablets which were automatically dispensed down the well.  This would cause the iron in the well water to clump together and precipitate out of solution.  I didn't go with that system because it sounded like all that iron sludge would just accumulate at the bottom of the well and after ten or fifteen years I thought it would do something bad.

   The second system (which is what I went with) consisted of a precipitation tank in the basement into which was injected a solution of chlorine bleach (regular old Chlorox) which was stored in another tank.  The precipitated iron would fall to the bottom of the tank and once a day, on a timer, would be flushed into the sewer.

   Then the water went thru a carbon filter to remove the chlorine smell and taste which was back flushed into the sewer once every couple of days.

   Then thru a water sofftener which would also remove and residual traces of iron, then thru a pleated paper filter before going  up to the house.

   It worked pretty well but after a few years, they put in town water and I just hooked up to that.  I've still got all the tanks, valves and stuff and I'd make you a really good deal on it, cause it's just sitting in my basement taking up space.

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   Piffin | Sep 20, 2006 01:25am | #3

   help us catch up to where you are...

   All the water treatment guys start out by testing the water and then designing a system to deal with whatever the problems are. You don't want to just start adding poison to your water for the hecck of it.

   So - what are the results of your water test. I presume a certain amt of coloiform. Have you done anything to try to determine why it is there and to eliminate the source so far?

    

    

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