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Please help! I had my well deepened about 9 weeks ago and have been dealing with very cloudy water since. The driller told me to flush the well and I have been flushing but it has made no difference. The water is still not clearing up. The driller agrees that it should have cleared by now. We...

Can someone please help me understand my water test results and recommend a treatment for high iron/manganese? Here are the results I got: Total Coliform ABSENT E. coli ABSENT Nitrate Nitrogen <1.0 Nitrite Nitrogen <0.01 Arsenic 0.002 Iron *1.44 *UNACCEPTABLE Manganese *0.181*UNACCEPTABLE...

The good thing is that I do get clear water after running it for an hour or two. I spoke to the driller again today and he said that it looks like there is some soft rock that is making its way out of the well. He advised me to run the water hard for an hour or so until it runs clear and then...

As I described in a previous post, we had recently deepened our well and had since been dealing with gray, cloudy water. It has been over three weeks of flushing and there is little improvement. As someone suggested, I have been running 2 hoses and that seems to be making a difference. The thing...

We flushed the chlorine out in about a day, so it didn't take too long. This is day two of running two hoses, one into the woods and one back into the well. I am hoping a few days of this will do the trick. Would you recommend running the hoses all day or continue to do it in 3-hour increments?

Thanks Porky. Do you know how long this process can take?

The driller said to pump for 3 hours then let it recover for an hour and pump again.

We bought a house with a well that was producing about 1gpm. The well was 300' deep with a static level of 10'. That gave us almost 400 gallons of water in the well itself (6"well). We have been living in the house for a year and a half and never ran out of water for household needs. We could...

We have recently had our well deepened and are now dealing with sediment that I can't seem to flush out. Here is some more details. The well is about 30 years old, originally it was 300'. When we moved in about a year and a half ago, the well had a low yield, about 1 gpm. The water was of...