Deep well pump replacement

[djbmw]

If you have ongoing bacteria issues just skip the chlorine and install a UV light/sterilization system.
A whole kit can be purchased for under $1,000 and installation is straight forward for those of you that have done plumbing before.

Alternatively, there are chlorine, as well as peroxide, automated injection systems that can also be installed so you dont have to shock the well itself.

 

[sizem]

Just to re-iterate, install practices impacts contamination. My installs regardless of pipe never touch the ground to minimize contamination...extra hassle but worth the effort.

 

[gba2331]

Here, when a pump and riser pipe is installed (poly, metal, whatever), the well is schocked immediately with chlorine. They have a chart - diameter, depth, thus X amount of chlorine bleach at Y% or granules.

Shocking is done AFTER installation. Your pipe, hose, etc, drags across the lawn and picks up animal feces as you install and your hands are far from sterile nor is the pump and piping sterile.

Once chlorinated, you use a hose and discharge the hose back into the well. You continued to do this while wetting the interior of the well pipe. This continues until you are recirculating chlorinated water all along the interior of well casing and the down pipe. Post chlorine smell, you continue this for about 15 minutes or so.

When this is done, then you admit chlorinated water into the home and run till you have chlorine (via smell) at each fixture).

Then, the chlorinated water is left alone to burn out and cleanse the piping for 24-48 hours; ie you don't run any water.

After that, the system is run non-stop, typically thru a hose bib to purge the well and house till testing proves absence of chlorine. This can take 5-10 hours depending on well.

Only then is it tested for potability.

That's a lot of chlorine exposure I am thinking.

Above is new construction process here in VA.

Hence my concern with this hose.

Dang, we did nothing besides dump some chlorine in after a pump replacement years ago, the well company didn’t bring up any of these points.

 

[pcmeiners]

"Dang, we did nothing besides dump some chlorine in after a pump replacement years ago, the well company didn’t bring up any of these points."

Dang, we did nothing in the mid 1960s after well install or pump replacement..,.only started after the lawyers got involved.

 

[30-30remchester]

In 50+ years of working on wells, the stories I could tell about homeowner repair could fill a book. There was and is a movement in the industry to limit what a homeowner can perform on his own well. Some require a homeowner to study a booklet and take a test first. The water you contaminate is shared with other wells in the area. Of my many regrets in life, one is the fact that I seldom photographed or documented well work. If I were once again in business, a photo of every aspect would be taken and filed in a safe place. So, when I tell the story of bailing out a dead bat from the hand dug well of Barbra Walters or find a dead bovine floating in a house cistern that the household had been using for over a year, I could prove I wasn't fibbing.

 

[yatg]

and those damn zombies ...