diggity
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I have a thread started over on the Softener forum and it was suggested that I cross-post it here because some of my questions relate to the well itself. (Original post is here: https://terrylove.com/forums/index....ight-not-working-very-well.68427/#post-507744)
We recently had a new well drilled because our old one had unbelievable levels of iron. The new well is producing better water than the old one, but it's still not great. Here are the lab results on the old and new wells:
Old, New
Iron 132 mg/L, 18.27 mg/L
Manganese 4.7 mg/L, 2.2 mg/L
pH 5.32, 6.65
Hardness 792.7 mg/L, 951 mg/L
So the iron is down from 132 to 18. That's great, but 18 is still pretty high by most people's standards. My other thread concerns treating it, but I'd like to ask here about the structure of the well itself. The well guy said he encountered really nasty water from about 20' down to about 100.' My guess is that this is the same bad water as was in the old well (which was only around 150' deep total). He kept drilling through this lousy aquifer and found nothing else until he got to about 340' or so, at which point he encountered what seemed like better water.
He put casing down to 60.' I'm wondering if he should have cased further, since the lousy water is between 20-100,' but he may not have been able to know exactly how far to case down in all the turmoil of the drilling process (and he may have been trying to save us money, as casing is expensive).
The pump was put pretty much all the way at the bottom. Both the upper and lower aquifers produce a LOT of water, so I guess we're never at risk of running out, which is at least one good thing!
The question is, is there any way to determine if the 18 ppm of iron is coming from the upper aquifer and making its way down, or is the iron simply coming from the lower aquifer? If it's coming from the upper aquifer, then maybe there is some hope of isolating it. He proposed installing a Jazwell Seal at about 100 ft., which would hopefully isolate one aquifer from the other, but that would cost $2k, which is a lot of money to shell out with no guarantee that it would help. Any advice is appreciated!
We recently had a new well drilled because our old one had unbelievable levels of iron. The new well is producing better water than the old one, but it's still not great. Here are the lab results on the old and new wells:
Old, New
Iron 132 mg/L, 18.27 mg/L
Manganese 4.7 mg/L, 2.2 mg/L
pH 5.32, 6.65
Hardness 792.7 mg/L, 951 mg/L
So the iron is down from 132 to 18. That's great, but 18 is still pretty high by most people's standards. My other thread concerns treating it, but I'd like to ask here about the structure of the well itself. The well guy said he encountered really nasty water from about 20' down to about 100.' My guess is that this is the same bad water as was in the old well (which was only around 150' deep total). He kept drilling through this lousy aquifer and found nothing else until he got to about 340' or so, at which point he encountered what seemed like better water.
He put casing down to 60.' I'm wondering if he should have cased further, since the lousy water is between 20-100,' but he may not have been able to know exactly how far to case down in all the turmoil of the drilling process (and he may have been trying to save us money, as casing is expensive).
The pump was put pretty much all the way at the bottom. Both the upper and lower aquifers produce a LOT of water, so I guess we're never at risk of running out, which is at least one good thing!
The question is, is there any way to determine if the 18 ppm of iron is coming from the upper aquifer and making its way down, or is the iron simply coming from the lower aquifer? If it's coming from the upper aquifer, then maybe there is some hope of isolating it. He proposed installing a Jazwell Seal at about 100 ft., which would hopefully isolate one aquifer from the other, but that would cost $2k, which is a lot of money to shell out with no guarantee that it would help. Any advice is appreciated!
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