Gary Slusser
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The main reason drillers and real estate agents want the water run is to get a Coliform bacteria free test result. That usually not for the benefit of the homeowner because it gives them a false sense of security and not real time results.Mistake on my part for not looking at the start.
Running the well for only an hour after setting for some time might not give a good test of the water.
Drillers around here like to run the water for 24hours hard before a test is done so that the well has a chance to flush out of the old standing water from within the well and the ground feeding the well.
Most residential well pumps can not draw down a well sufficiently to get fresh water into the well and to the pump. The pump would have to pump the recovery rate gpm plus enough gpm to pull the static water, the well's storage capacity, down all but to the pump's inlet. And all the water below the pump's inlet is always stagnant anyway unless the well is a screened well with screening below the pump. Pulling a rock bore well down that far can cause serious problems, including ongoing hard to cure water quality problems.
Either a bad ground or wire laying on copper can give blue green stain, the ph at the 7.1.... I myself would rule out any electricity on the copper before adding a neutralizer.
If the softener worked before, then replace with an newer one like the one that is there now.
So far there is no blue staining other than on the floor in the basement under the copper water lines, and some under faucets. Otherwise there is no blue staining as evidence of copper tubing internal corrosion. The OP said; "The washer hose bib and the bottoms of some of the faucet assemblies is blue green and "fuzzy" We've been told it is a problem with the CO2 in the water.".