I need plumbing advice! PLEASE HELP?

Question

I purchased a home with a well that needed to be chlorinated. I called a plumber and I was instructed on what to do: Use 8 gallons of bleach and follow standard procedures. It has been a month and I still have bleach in my water. I have learned that 8 gallons was WAY too much for a 40 ft deep well. Please tell me what I should do now. I have been running the water and running the water!

Answer 1

Keep plugging away! Run all the fixtures in your home inside and out until the bleach and smell goes away. The longer the bleach stayed in the well the longer you'll need to flush. You have a very shallow well which means a higher bleach concentration than normal. Don't drink or bathe in the water until it smells normal. Your hard work will pay off and you'll have a sanitary water supply.

Answer 2

do not add no more bleach.

Answer 3

1- call professional inspector (water inspection) .

2- Have sample of the water for contamination test to a laboratory.

3- Which stupid told you to add bleach in to the water that will be use for purpose of washing or watering grasses or may be shower .

Answer 4

Question - What will stop Bleach meaning what will neutralize bleach?

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Bleach is an oxidizing agent. Reducing agents will destroy it.

Unfortunately, there aren't very many readily-available reducing agents

around, since we live in an oxidizing atmosphere. Reducing agents tend to

get consumed by atmospheric oxygen. There are lots of laboratory chemicals

that will work, but they can be hard to obtain, and they may form nasty

products when they react with bleach.

Richard E. Barrans Jr., Ph.D.

Assistant Director

PG Research Foundation, Darien, Illinois

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Not much you can do about it unfortunately. Sorry I couln't help. Good Kuck and have a good day.

Answer 5

the cheapest thing you can do is keep water running to flush it all out. hook a hose to your tank and run the hose outside, it'll be less stressful on your pump.you already know your inside pipes are clean if you still smell bleach.otherwise you could call the company that installed your well and/or pump in the well. their name should be on the top of the well or on the tank. ask them how much it would be to come out and pull your pump out and blow out the well to flush it. they should take the pump out and insert about 30feet or so of air hose down the well and hook it up to big air compressor and it'll blow the water out about 15-20 feet in the air!!! (fun part of well installation) after the initial blast it won't be as high,but it will flush everything out of your well, as well as the screen in the bottom. after a little while it should be clean as  it'll ever be. couldn't guess what they'd charge you, but it will be clean. If it needs to be chlorinated again, ask a well drilling company not a plumber. we used chlorine tablets that dissolved pretty quick so it wouldn't be there a month later.