LFCraig
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Hi,
Looking for advice for treating sulfur and sulfur bacteria in water. I have had 4 companies come out to test the water and test results have been similar:
PH 8
TDS 1090
Iron 0.2 ppm
Sulfur 2.5 ppm
Hardness 6 grains
We have a softener, which is working fine.
The house came with a zeoprep (zeolite??) Iron/sulfur filter with air injection (its one tank) that doesn't work well for us at all. The sulfure smell is often present at the taps and tests show it is coming though the filter at 0.5ppm. We have a big blue filter downstream and it captures lots of oxidized sulfur. The filter is a Charger Iron Breaker III. It has a fleck 5600SXT valve which I've been told is responsible for the large amounts of air in our pipes, because it is lacking a check valve. It currently backwashes every night.
Our well is 10 years old, and 85 feet deep. 1\2 HP pump.
The solutions we have been offered are:
1 - Chlorine injection system with retention tank (40 gallon) plus rebedding our current filter with MangOx. Optional addition of a backwashing carbon filter on top of this.
2 - peroxide injection system with 40 gallon retention tank plus rebedding of our current filter with catalytic carbon.
3 - rainsoft greensand plus filter.
4 - vortech tank with clack valve using a mixture of KDF-85 and katalox light. The company offering this also said we should be shocking our well every 3 months.
So, now I'm very confused!
Looking for something that is going to work and not require a whole lot of maintenance. We plan to be in the house for a long time, so something that will last is also good.
Thoughts????
Looking for advice for treating sulfur and sulfur bacteria in water. I have had 4 companies come out to test the water and test results have been similar:
PH 8
TDS 1090
Iron 0.2 ppm
Sulfur 2.5 ppm
Hardness 6 grains
We have a softener, which is working fine.
The house came with a zeoprep (zeolite??) Iron/sulfur filter with air injection (its one tank) that doesn't work well for us at all. The sulfure smell is often present at the taps and tests show it is coming though the filter at 0.5ppm. We have a big blue filter downstream and it captures lots of oxidized sulfur. The filter is a Charger Iron Breaker III. It has a fleck 5600SXT valve which I've been told is responsible for the large amounts of air in our pipes, because it is lacking a check valve. It currently backwashes every night.
Our well is 10 years old, and 85 feet deep. 1\2 HP pump.
The solutions we have been offered are:
1 - Chlorine injection system with retention tank (40 gallon) plus rebedding our current filter with MangOx. Optional addition of a backwashing carbon filter on top of this.
2 - peroxide injection system with 40 gallon retention tank plus rebedding of our current filter with catalytic carbon.
3 - rainsoft greensand plus filter.
4 - vortech tank with clack valve using a mixture of KDF-85 and katalox light. The company offering this also said we should be shocking our well every 3 months.
So, now I'm very confused!
Looking for something that is going to work and not require a whole lot of maintenance. We plan to be in the house for a long time, so something that will last is also good.
Thoughts????