My grandmother wanted my parents off her well because she is crazy. Anyhow, my grandparents house is about 430ft higher up than my parents house and the well is 160ft deep. The water we were getting from that well tasted better than any water I've had.

The new well is located below the old well by about 40ft in elevation and is 300ft deep. The water tastes horrible like blood and stains the bathtub brown where the water drips. We had the water tested and the test showed the water had very little iron. Would the test also detect rust?

What do you think is in the water, can it be removed with a filter, and why did the well have to be drilled so deep when it is at an even lower elevation?

I'm so angry at the situation. $10,000 for a hole in the ground!

 

The rust should show as Iron. Our well is very high in iron, cause of the old rusty well casing. The water tastes good though. We just use a good water softner with some special rust/iron out salt.

 

Use a tank that collects sediment at the bottom?

 

They gotta pay for those $750k+ rigs somehow. I'm not trying to be a jerk, just know what they have to pay for a Drilling Rig. they might have had to drill deeper because of loction of the water table. and a filter might not hurt anything.

 

i wish you the best man, the water softener guy laughed at us when he tested our water, looked just like ours, rusted our washer out in less than 2 years.

 

yeah, lots of money for low quality water, two things:

1. how's the gpm of the water? 11 gallons will run a household with pressure at 30 pounds. that is a fresh source. from experience, I am only guessing- that this aquaifer holds water but has only seepage coming in. I bet you can draw enough water to run the house stuff but may have dry spells/low pressure with enough daily use. my opinion though.

2. kind of thinking that this is just a pocket of accumulated seepage with that kind of test results. lots of minerals to rule out a high iron content but
a lot of suspended sediment (pulverized rock and clay) to do the damage.


to do:

have a sediment tank of 200 gallons where pump line comes in to tank.
tank outflow goes to filtration ( salt or filter ) you will go through a ton of filters, lot of hassle there. a combination system is worth the 2000 price.
it filters at a low rate first (oil filter stuff) then treats it, then fine filters it before outgoing to water lines. mostly automatic.

yeah, I had hard water (lime) at a farm and it is the best tasting on a good running source. never did enough damage but we put a filter before the water heater anyways. boy I miss that !!

 

I was afraid treatment would be necessary. It's frustrating to have the hassle of a filter system when the water before had no maintenance. The original well is about 200ft away from the new well. Can water really vary that much in such a short distance?

 

we have the same thing here at our farm. did they install a plastic casing ? most wells in our neck of the woods end up with an iron bacteria that the well driller induces when he doesnt use chlorine on his tools. the plastic pipe gives the iron bacteria less to work on.

 

Yes but that varies greatly by the characteristics of the aquifer you're drawing from. Judging by the elevations you gave earlier, I'm not totally conviced you're drawing from the same source. If the new well is 40 feet below the old well and is 300 feet deep, that is a total of 340 feet below the top of the old well... the old well is 160 feet deep. So the new well is drawing from a location 180 feet below the old well...

 

You should feel lucky you only had to go 300 feet. I just had a well drilled at my new house and they had to go to 840 feet and case it 540 feet due to the mud. Let's just say you can buy a new car for what it cost me!!!!!!!!

 

both are wells are only 120 ft. and pump 55 gpm each. one was dug in 1935 and the other last year and are 200 yards apart.