question on well-water

[ibpboo]

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Oh Miss Prissy, that is so cool! We bought a generator so during power outages we can still run the well, two of the houses are uphill from the well, which I do not think is allowed to do anymore, we are grandfathered in. Also, depending on what type of well you have, test the water that is coming directly from the well, not through a garden hose or something. You have to run the water for a couple minutes, then clean the faucet with bleach, do not contaminate inside of testing bottle or inside of faucet with your hands, its really quite simple, get to lab soon. I forget the time span, but otherwise I think you refrigerate it if you can not get to lab right away.

 

[Beekissed]

There is a beautiful little mountain town here in WV that has town water loaded with carcinogenic bacterial growth. I guess its been going on for years and noone knew it, supposed to be the culprit mostly in female-related cancers. The so-called municiple water department had been inproperly mixing their decontaminate chemicals and they somehow reacted to actually promote the growth of a very nasty bacteria/protozoa.

My town water back home (also in WV) grows red mold. They have difficulty growing red mold in controlled experiments in a lab!

I wouldn't trust town water if someone paid me! It irks me to no end that they make people PAY for this poison! Bleach? Poisonous. Small amounts? Yeah...over many, many years of exposure! It may just be enough to slowly kill a person. Flouride. A well-known poison, a byproduct of making fertilizer. Even in small amounts? No way! Bad enough that one can't find a toothpaste without it in the ingredients.

Give me well water any time! Good, cold, pure well water. At least those bacteria, if any, are something we can build an immunity against.

 

[mistylady]

We don't have chicken poop near the well. The chickens are away from it.

With our well we dump a gallon of bleach in it every other month before we go to bed. Then run the tub and all faucets for about ten minutes in the morning to clear it out. Once you can't smell it we turn the water off. Our well is 122 feet deep.