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Very good points from Ditto and Reach. Making a system like this work is greatly dependent upon space (land space) and overall water quality coming out of the well. I would think that a rather large storage tank would be required. The positive perk here is the lack of need for any special...

Flower, I personally would not treat the irrigation water (to remove the iron) with any special media. I would investigate natural aeration within a "precipitation" tank. My idea specifically would be to buy a VERY LARGE plastic water storage tank (above ground or buried) and pump the well...

Dittohead, I am glad to hear that you believe this option will work out ok. All other options would be much more involved and "iffy" if there were to be a power outage over winter. I did have one other step to add to the process I mentioned above that would follow the draining and drying. I...

I have a unique question here. I am installing three 10" x 54" water filter tanks with Fleck back-flush valves at my cabin. The media I am using will be Bear River zeolite (BRZ), Clack BIRM and Jacobi catalytic carbon in each of the tanks, in that order. One media per tank. Is there a way to...

Matt and Ditto, Thanks very much for your sincere and professional input! I truly appreciate the advice from both of you. Since my water tests for hydrogen sulfide and pH were good, I decided to start with BIRM media first, as a trial run. It is less expensive and requires less backwash flow...

Hi Dittohead, The Katalox media caught my attention and I was looking into it. However, it required a greater backwash flow because it is a little more dense than BIRM and I was apprehensive about that. It is a little more expensive than BIRM, but not a huge margin. Roughly $40 more per...

Matt, Thank you. I know that a water softener will work for low ppm iron, but my goal was to set up a system where it was not necessary to rejuvenate the media with any chemicals (salt or otherwise). I was looking for a stand alone system that operated with back-washing only. This is the...

Thanks Valveman, sounds good to me! Gordo

I feared H2S content because the water smelled "off" coming right out of the well. This is why I applied the Hach H2S test and repeated it several times. It came up negative (zero H2S) every time. So what I smell is just river mud or stale water, not H2S. It does NOT smell like rotten eggs...

Requesting advice. I have not completed all my water evaluation tests yet, but I have completed two in situ tests to discover the pH and (H2S) hydrogen sulfide parameters. My new well water pH is 7.05 and the H2S is reading zero after conducting a Hach HS-C test several times - straight from...

tvl, I'm in Nebraska (zone 5 in regards to climate zone). At our cabin resort community, we have not experienced too many troubles with our well systems through humid summers or cold @$$ winters. Most of our enclosures are set on a 4" concrete pad with the well pipe routed through a larger...

I was very confused by his quote. The $4150 cost was not inclusive of the actual well bore installation. I need to add $1,600 to $1,975, depending upon how many wells he drills at this location (1, 2 or 3). The more people he gets signed up, the greater discount he can give us. He separated...

I am supplying the pressure tank since I already have it. 40 gallon H2O WORKS brand that I got from a local hardware store years ago. I'll have to discuss the specifics of the pump and controller when I see him this weekend. But, if everyone thinks this estimate is at least reasonable, then I...

My cabin neighbor is a well driller / installer and owns or is the co-owner of the well company. He is a really great guy and I have known him for many years, although I have never done any well business with him before. His company has installed at least three wells here within our cabin...

BorderCollie, You are definitely asking for a lot of headaches and troubles and future expenses. You should really heed the warnings from Reach in post #4, Craigpump in post #7, Ballvalve in post #9 and Greenmonster in post #11. I personally think that you are being totally unreasonable and...