PeterK
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I moved seven times in eighteen years with my previous employer (petroleum pipeline on easct coast). The company I worked for purchased my home fot eh majority of these moves. One condition of sale was a water quality test. The professionals who tested these wells all suggested pouring a gallon or two of bleach in the well whenever it failed, or on a yearly basisi to keep bacteria in check. One told me that even one dead cricket that has fallen into the well can conataminate the water and send the levels high.
I routinely pour a gallon of bleach in the well yearly. I then rum all the faucets in the house UNTIL I can smell bleach. Then I let it set in the pipes all day. (the pipes will colect bacteria also). I then turn all the faucets in the house on and let the water flow until I no longer smell bleach. We cook and drink bottled water for a few days until the taste is back to normal.
Absolutely. Not only are your sanitizing your well pump and water in the well pipe but just as important, the pipes in your house. That's why you run the faucet until you can smell the bleach and leave it closed afterwards overnight, then flush until you can't immediately smell bleach. Got to treat the whole system at the same time. I've had 3 houses with well and always followed the same protocol, yearly or bi-yearly.