Hi, My name is Mark and I live in Harvard Massachusettes and my e mail address is mbhoss@msn.com<mailto:mbhoss@msn.com>.
My history:
I had a new well drilled to 225 feet a little over a year ago. The reasons were more gallons per minute and better quality. Results were 25 gallons per minute but 40.9 reading on the iron content. A water filtration company came in and for approximately 6500.00 provided me with a system to handle the quality issues. Installed were a neutralizer, an iron remover, a 4" x 10" cartridge, a softener and a charcoal tank. For a short time this seemd to have worked. However, the systems needed to back wash every night and left us not being able to run any water for 5 to 6 hours in the wee hours of the night. Even though the maintenance was done by the installer as suggested we had the neutralizer head fail and two weeks later the softener head went. The suggestion made at this point was to " Sell the House".
Out of frustration and armed with some recent well history in the neighborhood the decision was made to set back up over the newly drilled well and go deeper. We went down to 525 feet and got 45 gpm. The pump was set back only to 360 feet for what reason I do not know except that I was told after the fact that maybe it would not do the job if set deeper? Now after having run the well for 30 plus hours I had the water tested for metals or " Stain Package". The results were Calcium 39.3 , Copper <0.02 , Iron 25.0 , Magnesium 9.1 , Maganese 1.3 , Sodium 26.3 , Hardness 136 and pII #6.0.
My question;
Would setting the pump down to 500 feet +/- potentially give me better results? Incidentally, the original well was sealed off at the 225 foot depth.
Is this water that you think can be treated is properly designed with out running into the problems of no water use at night, quarterly maintenance only to begin replacing components after only a year and a half?
Any help or suggestions would greatly be appreciated!
Sincerely,
Mark
