Nofears67
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Ok, so I have an old verticle turbine well that has only been used for irrigating an orchard for the past 40 +/- years.
- It does not have a sanitary seal.
- It does not have a concrete pump pad.
- The casing has been exposed to the atmosphere.
- The discharge head has not been sealed to the steel pump plate.
I had the water tested and it came back positive for bacteria, but negative for E Coli. I plan to use this well to serve a new home I am building on the same property. I am working to make this well "sanitary". Today I siliconed the casing to the steel pump plate. The dicharge head is wedged above the steel pump plate so far that the casing under the discharge head is open to atmosphere. I am working on a way to seal that off.
This weekend I poured a couple gallongs of 11% hypochlorite down the sounding tube and a gallon inside the pump discharge. I surged the well a few times and am now going to let it sit all week.
One of the biggest issues I found was that the discharge head has a couple small holes on the inside which open up directly to the top of this steel pump plate (the plate the discharge ehad sits on) and rememeber this area is open to atmosphere (well at least from the sides of the discharge head). The motor leaks oil (motor oil that is) and has for eons. This oil trickles down these two holes and has no doubt gone down the casing and I'm sure into the water column. I plugges these two holes with silicone and drilled a 3/4" holes in the back of the discharge head so that future drippings will not go down the casing and into the water column.
I'm wondering...
- How bad is it that this oil has gone down the sides of the casing over the years?
- How concerned should I be about the water smelling or tasting "oily"?
- Would cholrine help to eradicate some of this oil?
I plan to re-plumb the dischage piping next weekend and then surge/chlorinate/surge the well until it runs clear. Then I will re-test the water.
I will find the results from the initial test and post here so that you can see what the results were.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
- It does not have a sanitary seal.
- It does not have a concrete pump pad.
- The casing has been exposed to the atmosphere.
- The discharge head has not been sealed to the steel pump plate.
I had the water tested and it came back positive for bacteria, but negative for E Coli. I plan to use this well to serve a new home I am building on the same property. I am working to make this well "sanitary". Today I siliconed the casing to the steel pump plate. The dicharge head is wedged above the steel pump plate so far that the casing under the discharge head is open to atmosphere. I am working on a way to seal that off.
This weekend I poured a couple gallongs of 11% hypochlorite down the sounding tube and a gallon inside the pump discharge. I surged the well a few times and am now going to let it sit all week.
One of the biggest issues I found was that the discharge head has a couple small holes on the inside which open up directly to the top of this steel pump plate (the plate the discharge ehad sits on) and rememeber this area is open to atmosphere (well at least from the sides of the discharge head). The motor leaks oil (motor oil that is) and has for eons. This oil trickles down these two holes and has no doubt gone down the casing and I'm sure into the water column. I plugges these two holes with silicone and drilled a 3/4" holes in the back of the discharge head so that future drippings will not go down the casing and into the water column.
I'm wondering...
- How bad is it that this oil has gone down the sides of the casing over the years?
- How concerned should I be about the water smelling or tasting "oily"?
- Would cholrine help to eradicate some of this oil?
I plan to re-plumb the dischage piping next weekend and then surge/chlorinate/surge the well until it runs clear. Then I will re-test the water.
I will find the results from the initial test and post here so that you can see what the results were.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!