Froggertwenty
New Member
So I'm currently in the process of buying a house but this is the first time I'm dealing with well water. The system appears to have been neglected for many years and was probably a DIY install and bandaids along the way. The system is in a low yield well and consists of storage tanks which have never been cleaned and are full of iron bacteria, a pressure tank with a perforated bladder, a chlorinator and contact tank, and then 2 "ionizer" tanks from the 70's that are backed up and leaking, and then a water softener that hasn't been touched in a while.
I did my due diligence and had the company who drilled the well out to look at it as well as a water treatment company. I'm a little lost because they had 2 very different opinions on how to attack this. I'll save the storage questions for the other part of the forum but basically....
The water treatment guy tested the water and came up with 21 grains of hardness, 10ppm of Iron, Ph of 7.2, and claimed to smell a bit of sulfur but we hadn't been able to smell any ourselves. The backs of the toilets also have a lot of iron bacteria in them. This house has not been maintained in a while though and has been sitting vacant for a couple months it seems.
The well driller who does most of the wells in the area did not test the water but said in the area, all the wells are low yield, high in iron, very little sulfur. He recommended getting rid of everything and simplifying it down to some sort of carbon filter tank (he didn't give specifics as the was just a quick evaluation for buying the house).
The water treatment guy on the other hand recommended an
Evolve EVS-1354 (https://www.evolveseries.com/products/filtration/evs.html)
Which appears to be a Sulfur filter?
Then an Evolve EV2 (https://www.evolveseries.com/products/conditioners/ev2.html)
Which appears to be a zeolite water conditioner. Followed up by a UV Filter and optional RO system for drinking water.
I have no idea which option makes more sense. The water treatment estimate was obviously significantly higher but it seemed he wanted to sell more treatment equipment since he had no idea about the storage side and never found the perforated pressure tank and thought the leaking pump was fine. The well guy on the other hand seemed to want to sell us more on drilling the pump casing from 6"-12" for storage instead which comes at a cost so a cheap treatment in the house makes that more likely.
I did my due diligence and had the company who drilled the well out to look at it as well as a water treatment company. I'm a little lost because they had 2 very different opinions on how to attack this. I'll save the storage questions for the other part of the forum but basically....
The water treatment guy tested the water and came up with 21 grains of hardness, 10ppm of Iron, Ph of 7.2, and claimed to smell a bit of sulfur but we hadn't been able to smell any ourselves. The backs of the toilets also have a lot of iron bacteria in them. This house has not been maintained in a while though and has been sitting vacant for a couple months it seems.
The well driller who does most of the wells in the area did not test the water but said in the area, all the wells are low yield, high in iron, very little sulfur. He recommended getting rid of everything and simplifying it down to some sort of carbon filter tank (he didn't give specifics as the was just a quick evaluation for buying the house).
The water treatment guy on the other hand recommended an
Evolve EVS-1354 (https://www.evolveseries.com/products/filtration/evs.html)
Which appears to be a Sulfur filter?
Then an Evolve EV2 (https://www.evolveseries.com/products/conditioners/ev2.html)
Which appears to be a zeolite water conditioner. Followed up by a UV Filter and optional RO system for drinking water.
I have no idea which option makes more sense. The water treatment estimate was obviously significantly higher but it seemed he wanted to sell more treatment equipment since he had no idea about the storage side and never found the perforated pressure tank and thought the leaking pump was fine. The well guy on the other hand seemed to want to sell us more on drilling the pump casing from 6"-12" for storage instead which comes at a cost so a cheap treatment in the house makes that more likely.