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Watersafe WS425W Well Water Test Kit
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Test for potentially harmful bacteria and the presence of toxins from pesticides or fertilizers
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I have a well and every once in a while the water turns all brown almost muddy. It usually lasts 2 or 3 days. What causes this and how do I fix it?
There could be several reasons for your water turning muddy, which is exactly what is happening.
1st option: someone else is drilling a well into the same ground water supply and disturbing the water.
2nd: if your well is old and not very deep you could be experiencing cave ins.
3rd: Very old hand dug well are shallow and can be affected by ground water run off
Good luck
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We cannot drink the water. It was not recommended anyway by a water purification company. We buy gallons of water to cook with and drink. Apparently the well water has a high sulfur content in it and we cannot consume it.
Can I water my outdoor plants with it being it does come from the same ground the plants and flowers grow in?
You certainly can use that water for irrigation
Most "irrigation wells" are simply shallow wells that may not meet drinking standards, but are fine for watering crops (or flowers). If your water is too acidic, it may cause some issues with certain plants that like "sweeter" soil, but unless you have thousands of dollars invested in your landscape and house plants, I would just let it rip and see what happens
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I am considering having a water well drilled to use for watering a new lawn I am planning to start this fall. The cost for drilling the well and installing the pump and running electricity to the pump was quoted at almost $1500. Aside from this initial up front costs, what regualar maintenance costs should I anticipate. I have a neighbor who said he considered a well, but the upkeep on it turned him away. He mentioned the water needing to be treated, wells closing up and needing to be cleared out, etc. I watered my grass a lot this summer and the water big was quite expensive, but I don't want to trade one big expense for another. I'm mainly getting the well to save money because we already have city water service.
I guess part of it depends on where you live and the water you end up with. I live in rural Maine and do not have access to town water (our town has not public water). When I bought my house I had a new well drilled (the old one was shared and on a neighbors property so the bank made me get my own). The drilling, piping, pump, and all that was almost $5000 and this included water testing and shocking (pouring bleach in and running until its flushed) until it passed state water tests. Other than the electricity to run the pump I have no upkeep costs on my well. If you do not plan to drink this water as you have town water you may not care if it passes these tests, but if you are going to go to the expense of having a well drilled you may as well get completely off the town water. Good Luck!
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I use water from a well and want my lawn to be green but don't want to contaminate my well water. TruGreen states that their product is safe for well water, but I don't believe the hype. Is there something I can apply that won't cause a buildup in harmful nitrates or other chemicals? Sometimes I drink the water and my fingers turn blue.
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Uh... attorney, attorney, attorney, are you living in the eighteenth century?
The best way to keep your water safe is to make sure that it is hovering 500 feet above your house at all times.
I hope this is helpful.
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I am moving into a home that has a water well, what if any is there in the water pressure. and how does that work. If I am running my shower and doing dishes at the same time will I still have the same pressure or will I lose pressure. What I am asking is it the same.
Hi Bettie,
The pressure is controlled by a pressure switch on the pump. You can set it wherever you want but most of the time it runs between 45-65 psi. Should never exceed 70 in my opinion.
As far as the amount of water it depends on your particular well production. Most wells have a production number listed somewhere and it's expressed in gallons per minute (gpm). The higher the gpm, obviously, the more water you have at your disposal. A good well will have a range of 10-15gpm .
PS: Morris is absolutely correct about the pump volume. What I am referring to is the well's production rate which is a factor of the water depth in the well, the diameter of the well and the recharge rate. In other words you could have a pump that would pump 50 gpm but if you only have 10gpm available that's all you will get. As he points out if you have a good well and a good volume pump you will have no problems running two taps at the same time. Hope that's clear.
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When you live in an old farmhouse that uses well water, like I do, you have to adopt some "green living" practices just to keep living at all. No pesticides or herbicides of any kind are allowed near my well, for example. I also test my water at least once a year for nitrates, bacteria and other contaminants.
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Many of India’s problems are summed up in its mismanagement of water, [which includes corruption and unsustainable subsidies]. Now a scanty monsoon has made matters much worse.
[...] Around 450m [Indians] live off rain-fed agriculture, and this year’s monsoon rains, which between June and September provide 80% of India’s precipitation, have been the scantiest in decades. Almost half India’s 604 districts are affected by drought, especially in the poorest and most populous states—such as Bihar, which has declared drought in 26 of its 38 districts. [...] That also means less water for thirsty cities, including Delhi, where 18m people live and the water board meets around half their demand in a good year.
[...] India’s extremes of hydrology, poverty and population present vast difficulties for water management which it has never mastered. [...] Increasingly frequent droughts [...] will accentuate India’s problems, with the monsoon rains, which supply over 50% of much of India’s annual precipitation in just 15 days, predicted to become even more contracted and unpredictable. At the same time, the rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers promises to deprive the great rivers of the Indian sub-continent, the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra, of their summertime source. This threatens a triple whammy: of longer dry seasons, in which these rivers do not flow, and more violent wet seasons.
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