Sting wrote:Lu47Dan wrote:
Draw 30 gallons of water in buckets, wait overnight for the well to recover, than the next evening pour five or six gallons of bleach into the well and circulate the water from the well into the house and back into the well.
Sittin here with 6 gallon of bleach -reminds me of holding that first rubber on a Friday night
Set Up date....
Thnkin==== do I have the balls to do this ??? pour this poison in my well????
IF your pressure switch is in the well you want to use a funnel and a piece of plastic pipe to get below the switch a few feet to prevent damage to the switch and yourself.
Sting, I have probably over the years done over a hundred wells like this to sanitize them and help clean them out. Once the bleach is in and the water circulated from the well to the house and than back down the well to sanitize the piping, the water will become dirty nasty looking from the action of the bleach. This is normal for this process, the bleach attacks the build up of minerals and any bacteria in the well. The built up minerals are stripped off the well casing, pump, piping and out of the formation. Once the well has set overnight pumping the water over the top of the well Is the best way to clean it out. But running it out on the ground from a boiler drain at the tank or a frost free hydrant is the second best.
IF you have a water softener PUT it in bypass before circulating the water and until you have the water cleaned up!
Once you begin pumping the well out and the pump kicks on, time how long it takes to fill a 5gal bucket. Filling it to the bottom of the reinforcing rings is approximately five gallons over the top is closer to six.
30 seconds is ten gallons per minute. 1 minute is 10 gpm.
Once the well has pumped down, and the gpm slows down to a steady output, you can measure what your well is "making". The GPM of the formation. Again direct the water from the hose into an empty bucket and time it for five gallons. A little math and you can figure out what amount the well is making per minute.
Some wells never pump down all the way but the GPM can be determined by shutting off the pump and measure the recovery rate of the well to get GPM. That takes an electric tape or a very good ear to hear a weight on a string hitting the waters surface.
Time the recovery for a minute and multiple the feet of rise by the casing capacity and you have gpm.
I have had several wells pump down to nothing and had them whoosh and all of a sudden they made large quantities of water. These were mostly wells at camps that were bought and turned in year round residences. The well at a camp does not get used as much as a well at a home so they do get plugged up over time.
Dan.
