tico007
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Hello,
I live in southern NH. Have a 6 in well pipe, pump set at 135 ft. Assuming from the debris around the well and this area of NH it's drilled in granite. But I don't know for sure. I don't see any sand in the water. Just black black slime in toilet bowls. Black clumps that occasionally clog the washing machine, faucet screens, irrigation solenoids. Several years ago during a pump replacement a well company told us it was manganese and it was common for the area. Not much you can do about it. So we lived with it. In recent years we ran out of water a couple of times during irrigation. I backed off the minutes, changed to smaller heads, was better for a few more years. Until this year. We can no longer use the irrigation system because it takes so long for the well to recover it gets in the way of normal daily activities like laundry dishes, showers. Whats odd is I'm worried about the well going dry, but my neighbors on both sides with the same wells the same age approx 200 feet away can run water all day and night and have no problems. I asked they say they have no manganese issues.
I've been calling around asking for help from local well companies. Some type of rehabilitation. Hydrofracking. They either don't call back or they say they can't do it for one reason or another. The only option they gave me is deepening or drilling another well for a cost I can't afford. So I'm wondering if I can put something in the well myself to try to clean it. Researching I read about Nu-Well 100 which is 70% Sulfamic acid. Further research suggests Sulfamic acid is not very good at dissolving iron/manganese. Another was Unicid. Its part Sulfamic, part Oxalic acid, part citric acid. Acids blended together. Hard to acquire, no one locally sells it.
My question is can I create an acid brew of my own? Put that in the well for a day, hope for the best. Like for example, oxalic acid. Then neutralize with baking soda. Oxalic acid is decent at dissolving iron, manganese. I use that around the house for various projects like rust removing on autos, bleaching the deck wood, etc.
I live in southern NH. Have a 6 in well pipe, pump set at 135 ft. Assuming from the debris around the well and this area of NH it's drilled in granite. But I don't know for sure. I don't see any sand in the water. Just black black slime in toilet bowls. Black clumps that occasionally clog the washing machine, faucet screens, irrigation solenoids. Several years ago during a pump replacement a well company told us it was manganese and it was common for the area. Not much you can do about it. So we lived with it. In recent years we ran out of water a couple of times during irrigation. I backed off the minutes, changed to smaller heads, was better for a few more years. Until this year. We can no longer use the irrigation system because it takes so long for the well to recover it gets in the way of normal daily activities like laundry dishes, showers. Whats odd is I'm worried about the well going dry, but my neighbors on both sides with the same wells the same age approx 200 feet away can run water all day and night and have no problems. I asked they say they have no manganese issues.
I've been calling around asking for help from local well companies. Some type of rehabilitation. Hydrofracking. They either don't call back or they say they can't do it for one reason or another. The only option they gave me is deepening or drilling another well for a cost I can't afford. So I'm wondering if I can put something in the well myself to try to clean it. Researching I read about Nu-Well 100 which is 70% Sulfamic acid. Further research suggests Sulfamic acid is not very good at dissolving iron/manganese. Another was Unicid. Its part Sulfamic, part Oxalic acid, part citric acid. Acids blended together. Hard to acquire, no one locally sells it.
My question is can I create an acid brew of my own? Put that in the well for a day, hope for the best. Like for example, oxalic acid. Then neutralize with baking soda. Oxalic acid is decent at dissolving iron, manganese. I use that around the house for various projects like rust removing on autos, bleaching the deck wood, etc.