What maintenance should be done to a private well that supplies outdoor water only? Location near Milwaukee,WI?
September 11, 2009 by Builder Wong
Filed under Maintenance & Repairs
My brand new residence has metropolitan H2O indoors, though a outside H2O supply is from a in isolation well. What maintanence should be finished deliberation it retailer usually a outside water?
If you are certain no one will be drinking the water probably nothing. You can have it tested and you are probably going to find out it is fine although companies will want to sell you a water treatment system. You can also add clorox to the well to kill bacteria but you should know the gals of water in your well before you do this. (Volume of a cylinder provided you know the depth and diameter of your water.)
We have been on well water in Virginia for over 30 years and treat it with soda ash to reduce the acidity. It softens it quite a bit and takes away a rather bitter taste. It is a self designed and installed system and no one has gotten ill from our water. Chances are unless you have reason to suspect contamination, you don’t need to do any maintenance. Just run the pump once in a while to keep water in the lines and have it reasonably fresh whenever you use it.
Huh? Our "outdoor" well sits at the end of where the drain field once was, so of course the water is strictly "outside use." We don’t do anything other than call the pump repairman when the pump has problems, every few years. The pump is 30 years old and is the same pump…OK, rebuilt once.
You are in a cold climate, so of course you need to "drain the pump" as frost/freeze time approaches. Have you found the drain valve…ours is a little petcock. We open it and then open a valve to break the suction. Water drains out of the pump (obviously not a submersible pump). We don’t wrap anything but then it doesn’t get as cold here as Milwaukee. You might want to call a pump company and ask how to winterize your pumps there.
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