saabsister
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posted on August 22, 2001 12:34:55 PM
We've got to replace our well pump this weekend so I guess we'll need to chlorinate the well. I haven't done this in about ten years. Without calling the Health Department for instructions, I'd like to know if this sounds right to anyone who has done this in the past.
After the repairs are made, drop a gallon of bleach down the well. Run the garden hose into the well and recirculate the water until it smells like chlorine. When the water at the taps inside the house smells like bleach too, shut the well down and let the water set overnight in the lines. In the morning, start the well, then run the water out the hose in the yard until the chlorine smell goes away. Does that sound right?
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kraftdinner
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posted on August 22, 2001 12:37:14 PM
That's exactly what you do saabsister! 
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toke
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posted on August 22, 2001 12:39:49 PM
We have a well, but have never chlorinated it. I know none of our neighbors has either... Maybe go to your county extension service? Ours has a booklet for every subject under the sun.
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saabsister
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posted on August 22, 2001 12:48:01 PM
Thanks, kraftdinner. I just knew after leaving the pipes on the ground that we'd have to do something to clean them after the repair was made. It's been so long since I've had to do this I wasn't sure that I remembered.
Toke, the sanitarian from the Health Department told me when we bought this house that we should chlorinate the lines yearly but we don't do it and neither does anyone else I know.
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toke
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posted on August 22, 2001 01:00:56 PM
Yikes. We've been here for 25 years, replaced a point and a pump. Our neighbor used a shotgun on our point when we first got here...believe that?
Wonder if we've been poisoning ourselves? 
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zilvy
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posted on August 22, 2001 01:05:25 PM
Check with that county extension service Toke..We had a well when we lived in Lakeville, Ma and I don't recall my folks ever doing anything like that...but of course that was sooo long ago Katherine the Great was only Katherine the So So!
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toke
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posted on August 22, 2001 01:11:42 PM
Lakeville??? I went through there yesterday, on the way to one of the worst calls I've ever had the misfortune to go on...in Middleborough. I like Lakeville...a very good friend lives there... Still pretty rural, too.
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kraftdinner
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posted on August 22, 2001 01:14:19 PM
toke, it depends on how deep your well is. Mine is 110 feet down (a drilled well), so I've never had to chlorinate, but if you change the tubing or anything, you have to do what saabsister says in case there is any bacteria in the settiment. If your well is a dug well, you should have it tested once a year for e-coli, etc. Don't be fooled by the taste. Polluted well water doen't always smell or taste bad, but if you've noticed any unusual growths on your body or anything, I'd have it tested 
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saabsister
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posted on August 22, 2001 01:14:19 PM
I think that the sanitarian suggested that schedule because so many of the wells are shallow and old in our neighborhood. There are also a lot of small parcels with drainfields not far from wells. And the lake is close by.
My husband and I have never gotten any waterborne (sp?) diseases, but our systems are used to it. I hope we haven't poisoned our guests over the years.
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toke
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posted on August 22, 2001 01:21:04 PM
Are wrinkles a known side effect of well gong gong? If so..........
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saabsister
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posted on August 22, 2001 01:22:39 PM
If they are, my well is in deep poo....
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gravid
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posted on August 22, 2001 01:33:41 PM
toke - My friend's brother in law is dumb as a brick. His well got silted up to where it did not draw so my friend told him if you shoot a high powered rifle down the well casing the hydrostatic shock will blow the screen clear for a little while at least until you can fix it, just like your shotgun method.
He went home took his 30.06 out and shot down the casing -- did not draw up his submersible pump first hanging there on the cable. Shot his pump and destroyed it.
This is a guy you do not tell to do something without step by step written instructions.
He could not shovel cow manure without lessons first.
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zilvy
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posted on August 22, 2001 01:35:43 PM
Polluted well water doen't always smell or taste bad, but if you've noticed any unusual growths on your body or anything, I'd have it tested
OH GAWD I have moss growing on my north side......I'm in deep trouble!!!
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kraftdinner
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posted on August 22, 2001 01:38:48 PM
We're all in trouble if that's the case!
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toke
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posted on August 22, 2001 01:44:44 PM
gravid...
My neighbor was a little smarter, thank god. The shotgun actually did the trick, for a while...
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Linda_K
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posted on August 22, 2001 02:43:14 PM
You guys are too funny. LOL
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