What is recommended treatment for Iron with Iron Bacteria in well water these days?

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I have researched like crazy last few days so Im beginning to understand. please bear with me. My sediment filters get absolutely nasty with red/brown sludge. I have gardens and reef tank and I have symptoms and cant quite figure out what my problems are. Ordered a tapscore test, awaiting results. I understand we need results to accurately treat problem, but trying to get ahead of it and get my research in for when results come back, so I can order right away.

I have RO/DI with separate anion/cation and mixed bed. I also fabbed and installed a co2 degassification system due to anion exhausting rapidly. Anion cartridge continues to exhaust after 100 gallons of product water. I suspect silicates present. turbidity etc.

Hardness 20 grains, Iron 2.0, tds 356.

I am interested in DIY and budget friendly. I was looking into chlorine or h2o2 injection system(and could piece one together much cheaper off ebay) but have read that there are pros and cons of each when it comes to iron bacteria. I prefer not to have a contact tank or a carbon backwash for chlorine if possible. I lean towards h2o2 for this reason. dosing pump, static mixer and spindown type sediment filter to remove precipitated iron. Would the iron bacteria be dealt with at this concentration?

I also like the idea of ozone air injection backwashing filter. but just getting started learning about this. Any guidance would be much appreciated!
 

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You can't get by cheaply, trust me. I spent a ton of time researching IRB (Iron Reducing Bacteria). You have to kill it in order to then properly filter it (remnants) and the iron.

I have a shallow casing well: about 38'. Can't recall what the hardness of my water is but I know it's not very hard. And turbidity wasn't/isn't bad. Iron was like 2.5 ppm, so low like yours. In addition to IRB I had one more clinker to add into the mix: manganese, low amount but detectable to the pallet (clashes with tannins).

I have a Stenner pump injecting H2O2 (calculated properly) using a pulse meter signal (triggers injection cycle once per gallon) just before a 40 gallon contact tank. My backwash filter uses Katalox Lite and prior to using this NOTHING would touch the manganese. I am totally sold on the KL (thanks to DittoHead for setting me up with a test filter). I lastly use a dual core final filter: using catalytic carbon I was replacing that FF every 3 months; with the KL I can go at least an entire year (read "filtration on the KL is so good that its higher cost is negated by its saving in FFs- over the course of its lifetime, which is longer than catalytic carbon, the KL actually comes out cheaper).
 
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You can't get by cheaply, trust me. I spent a ton of time researching IRB (Iron Reducing Bacteria). You have to kill it in order to then properly filter it (remnants) and the iron.

I have a shallow casing well: about 38'. Can't recall what the hardness of my water is but I know it's not very hard. And turbidity wasn't/isn't bad. Iron was like 2.5 ppm, so low like yours. In addition to IRB I had one more clinker to add into the mix: manganese, low amount but detectable to the pallet (clashes with tannins).

I have a Stenner pump injecting H2O2 (calculated properly) using a pulse meter signal (triggers injection cycle once per gallon) just before a 40 gallon contact tank. My backwash filter uses Katalox Lite and prior to using this NOTHING would touch the manganese. I am totally sold on the KL (thanks to DittoHead for setting me up with a test filter). I lastly use a dual core final filter: using catalytic carbon I was replacing that FF every 3 months; with the KL I can go at least an entire year (read "filtration on the KL is so good that its higher cost is negated by its saving in FFs- over the course of its lifetime, which is longer than catalytic carbon, the KL actually comes out cheaper).
wow, great post! Our water is so similar! my well is 65'. I cant wait to get test results back to tackle this. I was able to find a stenner pump, pulse water meter, and rest of the pieces necessary. I was planning on just a sediment filter to remove oxidized iron. and get by without a contact tank. It is so expensive.
Would you please elaborate on your dual core filter? What is it exactly? Is the KL mainly for removing the manganese? I have read success stories for just iron, without the contact tank.
 

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I have thought that if you don't have a contact/settling tank, you might consider an inverted U configuration, with the injector injecting high. Then the sediment could go downhill to the backwashing media tank.

Otherwise, I think you would want to plan a blowout valve for your piping to wash out the sediment periodically.
 
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I have thought that if you don't have a contact/settling tank, you might consider an inverted U configuration, with the injector injecting high. Then the sediment could go downhill to the backwashing media tank.

Otherwise, I think you would want to plan a blowout valve for your piping to wash out the sediment periodically.
this guy had success with static mixer, and then a spindown type filter by Lakos. Twist ii clean. I guess the iron Oxidizes and gets caught up in the spindown. This Lakos twist ii clean is pretty neat because instead of opening a valve to drain sediment, you twist it, and it backwashes the screen and then out like a typical spindown. If my water test comes back relatively low in iron, and no other bad stuff, I might give this setup a whirl. I did speak with well company, and I'm told the water table in this area is well known for iron. well is 10 years old, 65'. Upper peninsula of Michigan.

Here is link of video of h2o2 injection utilizing static mixer and Lakos sediment filter.
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