Hi all,
We moved into a new house 2/10 mile from the ocean about 15 months ago. The house and well were new in 2001. I believe our well is about 100 feet deep with a jet pump and worked flawlessly for our first year in the house.
Recently I had to rotate my well pump, a Starbrite ProJet HNE-L, 180 degrees to make room for a new detached garage foundation. Everything was cool for about two months after I made the change to the pump. Suddenly in a matter of two days our house water began purging alot of iron and everything turns orange. Being that we were in a drought, I thought that it was possibly due to a very low water table and hoped it would go away. There is no noticeable sediment. Our toilets now turn orange in a matter of two days...not to mention showers sinks etc. I don't even want to think about what its doing to my hot water heater.
There is a water spigot just after the pump itself where I checked the water prior to where it enters the pressure tank to detirmine if the rust was coming from the tank itself. The water was still bad.
My best guess is that the galvanized well pipe has rusted through (in just 6 years) and now it is leaching into my system. Does this sound accurate? Is there a plastic (maybe PVC) sleeve available that I can install inside my galvanized pipe to fix this problem? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
I know that everyone wants to say "get a water softener" but the problem came too quickly for there not to be an underlying problem. We had no water softener prior to this and everything was great...nice clean water. Please Help!
blan
We moved into a new house 2/10 mile from the ocean about 15 months ago. The house and well were new in 2001. I believe our well is about 100 feet deep with a jet pump and worked flawlessly for our first year in the house.
Recently I had to rotate my well pump, a Starbrite ProJet HNE-L, 180 degrees to make room for a new detached garage foundation. Everything was cool for about two months after I made the change to the pump. Suddenly in a matter of two days our house water began purging alot of iron and everything turns orange. Being that we were in a drought, I thought that it was possibly due to a very low water table and hoped it would go away. There is no noticeable sediment. Our toilets now turn orange in a matter of two days...not to mention showers sinks etc. I don't even want to think about what its doing to my hot water heater.
There is a water spigot just after the pump itself where I checked the water prior to where it enters the pressure tank to detirmine if the rust was coming from the tank itself. The water was still bad.
My best guess is that the galvanized well pipe has rusted through (in just 6 years) and now it is leaching into my system. Does this sound accurate? Is there a plastic (maybe PVC) sleeve available that I can install inside my galvanized pipe to fix this problem? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
I know that everyone wants to say "get a water softener" but the problem came too quickly for there not to be an underlying problem. We had no water softener prior to this and everything was great...nice clean water. Please Help!
blan
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