GianniD
New Member
I'm building a new home and the well was finished last week.. The well is 88 feet deep and our static water is at 32 feet. In the area we're building there's generally a lot of water. The driller stopped drilling in gravel as it seemed to produce a lot of water. After running the well with a test pump, he determined the well to make 20 plus gallons of water. The water was cloudy but he said it should clear.
On Thursday, we set the well pumping equipment and let the run well. The water was still cloudy so I figured I'd let it run awhile. Well after running it for 3 days it's still cloudy. I figure at this point I've ran over 15000 gallons through it non stop. I'm running it at about 5 GPM to try and get it to clear.
At this point I'm pretty sure the cloudy water is what I'm going to have. The well driller says it's a combination of fine sand and mud. He said we can pull the pump out and try to go deeper and look for better. He also stated it might clear in time. Obviously, there's no guarantees with this and I may actually get worse water if I go deeper. My preliminary water test is -
Total Hardness is 14 Grains
Iron is 1 grain
PH is 7.7
Total Dissolved Solids 191
The water is actually pretty good considering well water. I've had well water at my existing home and this water actually tests better than the water I have now. There's no rotten egg smell in the water and other than the cloudiness, it's pretty good. I'm going to obviously need a water softener. A picture of the water is included after it comes out of the spigot and after sitting overnight. The silt seems like it settles overnight and the water becomes clear. I rain the water through a paint strainer and it catches nothing.
My thoughts are I'm better off filtering what I got instead of going deeper. From the research I've done it seems like a Turbidex filter is what is used for filtering this out. Thoughts and advice please?
On Thursday, we set the well pumping equipment and let the run well. The water was still cloudy so I figured I'd let it run awhile. Well after running it for 3 days it's still cloudy. I figure at this point I've ran over 15000 gallons through it non stop. I'm running it at about 5 GPM to try and get it to clear.
At this point I'm pretty sure the cloudy water is what I'm going to have. The well driller says it's a combination of fine sand and mud. He said we can pull the pump out and try to go deeper and look for better. He also stated it might clear in time. Obviously, there's no guarantees with this and I may actually get worse water if I go deeper. My preliminary water test is -
Total Hardness is 14 Grains
Iron is 1 grain
PH is 7.7
Total Dissolved Solids 191
The water is actually pretty good considering well water. I've had well water at my existing home and this water actually tests better than the water I have now. There's no rotten egg smell in the water and other than the cloudiness, it's pretty good. I'm going to obviously need a water softener. A picture of the water is included after it comes out of the spigot and after sitting overnight. The silt seems like it settles overnight and the water becomes clear. I rain the water through a paint strainer and it catches nothing.
My thoughts are I'm better off filtering what I got instead of going deeper. From the research I've done it seems like a Turbidex filter is what is used for filtering this out. Thoughts and advice please?