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TREATING WELL WATER
PRE-TREATING PRIVATE WELL SYSTEMS
HAVING IRON BACTERIA -- Before you put the
dispensing system together and install it, chlor-
inate the well if it contains more than 10 parts per
million (ppm) of bacterial iron. Use the following
steps.
NOTE: If you don't chlorinate the well, you may
have iron in your water for up to 2 months after
you install the solution dispensing system
1_ For each 50 gallons of water in the well, pour 1
quart of ordinary household bleach into it. On
some wells, you can pour the bleach through the
breather pipe. On others, you may have to remove
the well seal
NOTE: You will probably have to estimate how
much water is in the well and use atrial and error
method of treatment, or else ask a qualified well
technician.
,&CAUTION: This much chlorine, at one time,
could exhaust the activated carbon in a taste
and odor filter° If you have a taste and odor
filter in your water system, by pass it to keep
the chlorine out while doing this pre4reating.
2. Pour several gallons of water into the well to
flush the bleach down to the water level
3 Open all faucets in the house, 1 at a time.
Close each faucet when you can smell the
bleach• Keep the water system closed for a
minimum of 2 hours If possible, keep closed
overnight
4. After 2 hours, or the next morning, open all
faucets and let the water run until clear and the
bleach odor is gone
TOOLS AND MATERIALS
TOOLS NEEDED -- You will need common and
cross point (Phillips) screw drivers, a slip-joint
pliers, tape measure or rule, and a sharp knife.
Depending on the kind of pipes you have in your
house, other tools you may need are ....
. .for SOLDERED COPPER -- tubing cutter,
propane torch, solid-core solder, paste flux, emery
cloth, sandpaper or steel wool
.....for THREADED PIPE-- hacksaw or pipe cutter,
pipe wrenches, pipe threading tool, pipe joint
compound
• . •for CPVC PLASTIC -- hacksaw, adjustable
wrench, solvent cement, fine emery cloth.
MATERIALS -- Depending on where and how you
install the Solution Dispensing System (page 7),
you may have all the things needed. Things not
included with the systemthatyoumayneedare••
If you have to install an electrical outlet (page
11), you will need materials meeting electrical
wiring codes, rWire, outlet box, receptacle, wire
nuts or tape, etc.
. • Jf you will pump solution directly into the well
(see pages 7 and 8) you may need more tubing
Read the note under step 2 on page 8
• • •If you will pump solution into the water system
between the well pump and pressure tank (see
pages 7 and 10), you may need some of the pipe
fittings shown in FIG. 6, page 10
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