How or what is the proper way to bleach your Well ? I know you can just forgot how much and for how long?
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Drilled Wells
Make a solution of bleach water using the amounts of bleach and water shown below. Remove the well seal. Pour the bleach solution into the well. Connect hose and spray inside of well casing for 15 minutes. Turn on water taps in house. Let it run until you can smell bleach at faucets. Turn water off. Let stand overnight. Next day, open faucets. Let water run slowly until bleach smell is gone.
To Make Bleach Solution
Find out how many gallons of water are in your well. For every 100 gallons of water in your well, add a mixture of: 3 cups bleach in 10 gallons of water.
If well diameter is It holds this much water
6 inches 1.5 gallons water per foot
8 inches 2.5 gallons water per foot
10 inches 4 gallons water per foot
12 inches 6 gallons of water per foot
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bleach your WHAT?
I used to use 1/2 gal of bleach. Open the well cap and dump it in. A serious note of caution, if you use a water softener you can get a reaction that will produce black/gray water. Contact your water softener company for their recommendations.
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