rob742
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My home is 12 years old. I live in a rural area and so I have a well and a pressure tank in my crawl space. My water pressure was low so I had a plumber come out to investigate. He found the pressure tank was bad. So it was replaced. Then he found the well pump was kicking out and the thermal was tripping on the motor. He said it went bad because of the bad pressure tank. He replaced the well pump but he cut 15 ' off the hose and wiring to the new pump because the 15' of wiring was going bad insulation was coming off. My well is 290' deep. So he said this would not make any difference. After the well pump was installed and I turned on the bathtub and sink faucet, I noticed rust color water and fine black pieces of sediment coming out of the faucets. This had never happened in the 12 years I have lived in this home. He told me that by pulling the old pump out and installing the new pump it had stirred up much sediment and scraped sediment from the casing . He told me not to run the water for 2 days and the sediment would settle, It has been 2 days and it is exactly the same rust and sediment. AS I said for 12 years I have had clear water with no sediment. What could have happened? Should I run the outside garden faucet until the water clears up?It has already cost me so much money to replace the pressure tank and well pump. I am having an anxiety attack thinking of what he will tell me next. I don't think I now need a filter but now I am worried that is what he will tell me. How can water be clear one day and then the next day be rust colored and full of fine black sediment? It should have gotten better with a new pump and a new pressure tank.
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