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[perchie.girl]

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My well water smells like sulpher but I love it too. I need to bleach the lines eventually. comes from benign bacteria the sites that talk about wells say its a simple thing to do and should be done about every five to ten years.

all you have to do is pour a pitcher and let it stand for about an hour the smell goes away.
deb

 

[perchie.girl]

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awesome craigslist score. I need a small tractor with a PTO so have been reading Craigs list alot.

deb

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

My well water smells like sulpher but I love it too.     I need to bleach the lines eventually.  comes from benign bacteria  the sites that talk about wells say its a simple thing to do and should be done about every five to ten years.

all you have to do is pour a pitcher and let it stand for about an hour the smell goes away.
deb

My gram has to put soda ash in there well water.

 

[ShanandGem]

My well water smells like sulpher but I love it too. I need to bleach the lines eventually. comes from benign bacteria the sites that talk about wells say its a simple thing to do and should be done about every five to ten years.

all you have to do is pour a pitcher and let it stand for about an hour the smell goes away.
de

Deb you're absolutely right, the sulphur smell is caused by a harmless bacteria that feeds on the iron in you water. Ours gets an odor sometimes too, but the more we use to better it gets as it's flushing the lines and whatever reservoir we are drawing from nearly 500 feet down.
I'm sure you're in full water conservation mode; I feel for you. I've been there. Any chance of drilling deeper? It's an expensive prospect, I know.

 

[perchie.girl]

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The well is already 450 feet deep. The cost to redrill is as expensive as a new one. Because 450 feet of casing has to be pulled as they pull it the well walls may collapse.... I would rather drill a second well up by the house. sigh... Like any of thats going to happen...

Most new wells up here are running more than 500 feet.

deb

 

[FarmerPhronc]

Who all here has a rain collection system I just made one yesterday and so far it has been working great today I raised it higher up on a stand so it will have more water pressure. So far so good

I'm hoping to build one soon. Until this month it was illegal to collect rain water in Colorado.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

The well is already 450 feet deep.    The cost to redrill is as expensive as a new one.   Because 450 feet of casing has to be pulled as they pull it the well walls may collapse....    I would rather drill a second well up by the house.   sigh... Like any of thats going to happen...

Most new wells up here are running more than 500 feet.

deb

Our well isn't very deep, so we have to go and be carful in the summer when it's dry not to run the well dry.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

I'm hoping to build one soon. Until this month it was illegal to collect rain water in Colorado.

Never heard of such a thing I wish you luck with yours, I will get some pics of mine then to show everyone how it turned out I haven't got it hooked up to the roof yet. It's pretty easy to put together it took my only about 30 minutes to cut the hole seal up around the hole, put in the over flow, and build a stand for the tanks to set on, and fill it with water.

 

[Sylvester017]

gotto have rain for water collection to work. sigh.

even at home with a well.... the water table has dropped 100 feet.

I have been looking at Greywater systems for Irrigation if I want any kind of garden at home.

deb

We have our own well where I live every person on my street has a well of there own so we don't have town water where it's all mineral and chemical. And town water it taste fine but I would prefer our water from our own well.

Sounds like you have good water! The only good water we get is from bottled filtered water. We have to get our 5-gallon bottles refilled every couple weeks, but we got used to doing it. We consider it beneficial to have good drinking and cooking water -- especially when we water our chickens. I can't help feeling I'm keeping their (and our) internal organs free of heavy minerals and chemicals.

My well water smells like sulpher but I love it too. I need to bleach the lines eventually. comes from benign bacteria the sites that talk about wells say its a simple thing to do and should be done about every five to ten years.

all you have to do is pour a pitcher and let it stand for about an hour the smell goes away.
deb

Bleaching is a good thing but where we live the water districts overdo it! We shouldn't be smelling chlorine when the tap water runs! My friend had her DH run her washing machine gray water into the backyard plants - of course, she has to use benign detergent to wash clothes but that's the way she gets around the water district's lawn-watering restrictions. We were restricted to 4 days, down to 3 days, now to 1 day with Sunday being a free day. It's getting ridiculous! I'm trying to figure out how the gigantic city parks and school grounds are getting away with all the water they're using up while our yards all go yellow - hmmmm?!!

 

[gpeters3]

Removed all vertical nipples and added 5 more horizontal ones on the opposite side of the pipe. It was interesting to watch them trying to drink from the plugs. It only took about 20 minutes for a few to figure out how to get up on the blocks to drink from the new ones. I put a 4in block and 2 8in blocks in the back for them to stand on. Im thinking they may not need the 8in ones. It took longer for the water to build up this time but still too much dripping so we will try all horizontal nipples for a while. Hopefully it will stay dryer.

With no vertical nipples i will have to keep it filled so the nipples dont dry out.