aggiehortguy91
Silver Member
Good advice Iplayfarmer. We have a metering pump on a 30 gal drum (no it's not as redneck as it sounds!). I mix 1 gal of 10% chlorine to the 30 gal of water for our use. There is a flow switch that turns the pump on when someone starts using water in the house and a regulator on the pump to change the amount of chlorine injected. The pump injects chlorine just up stream of a "mixing tank", a fiberglass tank where the chlorine and water can mix together and do their thing. The water then flows through a large carbon filter (the size of a 35000 grain water softener). There is a softener before the chlorine system. Generally, this takes care of everything for us. BTW, we have some sulfur, a little iron, and a lot of tannins! Overall, the system is fairly easy to operate.
If it is just sulfur, an aeration tank works well. That is what most people I know have. It may be a false sense of security, but I like knowing that the chlorine can kill things if they end up in our water.
If it is just sulfur, an aeration tank works well. That is what most people I know have. It may be a false sense of security, but I like knowing that the chlorine can kill things if they end up in our water.