Water well - improving water quality

[TurboDan]

My sister is asking for help in improving the quality of water from their E. Texas well. They currently use the water for bathing and washing, but water has too high a sulfur content for drinking. All drinking water is brought in. Any one with ideas or suggestions?

-danny

[Redge]

We have a high sulfur well, we pump into a tank 2000 gallon and aerate, smell totally dissipates. Also run a carbon filter when it goes to the house. Aeration is the key.

[huntinslabs]

They will need a water conditioning system with chlorine injector and tank to remove sulphur smell.

[belizaire]

Put a water softener. our well is horrible leaves the plants brown when water the garden a few days in a row

[Tracker123]

I use a ozone system on my water well, as well as a softener, along with a 150 gal holding tank. I know seems a little extreme with five different tanks involved with such a set up, along with the ozone pump lines, etc. I tend to over-engineer such things when I come up with them :rolleyes: My water tastes better than the city of Lafayette's water. Clean and pure.

Through an exchange process, the salt (NaCl) in the softener will provide the chloride ions that will help a lot.

[Cane Pole]

Ah. Reverse osmosis.

There are smaller systems available for drinking quality water.

I would first send a water sample to a water expert to make sure your only problem is sulfur. I believe most stated do well water testing for a small fee.

Our well water has some rust. I got tired of changing filters. I just drink it as it is not harmful. Well, except the rust has settled in my arse and turned to lead.

Google reverse osmosis systems.

[TurboDan]

i know they have some hardware, like chlorine injection that is not working with a small holding tank (30 gallons?) and some type of filter system...

What if I increase size of holding tank to 100 gallons with chlorine injection followed by water softner, then charcoal filters? I'm assuming you will be able to backwash softner using untreated water. Do i have order of hardware correct? If I aerate, I would assume a holding system is required then pump into water conditioning system. Correct?

-danny

[Tracker123]

I utilize an ozone pump which injects into the system only when the water is running - power for the pump is wired to a pressure switch in the system (not the switch on the pump itself, but another independent). In that manner, the injection is controlled. The injection follows the charcoal filter, which is first. The last unit before the delivery of water is the softener itself. It be would unnecessary to backwash the softener with untreated water at this point, use the current water that is fed into it. Let us know if you have additional questions.

[Saltine]

I remember when I was a kid, my parents bought a house next to our farm. To get the water to pass inspection for the local health department, they dumped a bunch of chlorine bleach in the well. It took 3 attempts to pass. I figured we would have had some kind of injection system, but my Dad said he just had manganese greensand filter and water softener.

[fishingpox]

Metallica man

Ah. Reverse osmosis.

There are smaller systems available for drinking quality water.

I would first send a water sample to a water expert to make sure your only problem is sulfur. I believe most stated do well water testing for a small fee.

Our well water has some rust. I got tired of changing filters. I just drink it as it is not harmful. Well, except the rust has settled in my arse and turned to lead.

Google reverse osmosis systems.