Update: November 2020
A home changed hands on our country lane recently, and the new owner had their well water tested. The test shows arsenic levels quite a bit higher than EPA limits. Today I read on the EPA website that shock chlorination of a well can leach arsenic into well water, and should be reserved for severe bacterial contamination in areas with potential arsenic problems.
It turns out that I have not had to shock my well this year - it simply hasn't been necessary. I have been dropping 8-10 chlorine pellets into the well every month or so. My plan now is to reduce this chlorination further to test how low I can go, and still avoid iron and sulphur problems.
The filter and softener are working perfectly. This certainly qualifies as one of my best purchases ever. My water tastes and smells perfect.
Update: January 2020.
I had noticed a very slight metallic taste to my water. After some discussion with tech support, it turns out that you are better off not bypassing the filter when you chlorinate your well. Bypassing the softener is necessary though, because chlorine does degrade the softener resin. As discussed before, to control iron and sulfur bacteria, I both shock my well, and use chlorine pellets on a regular basis. About once every month, when I add salt to the softener, I drop pellets down the well.
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I installed this filter along with a new water softener a year ago. My only regret is that I should have bought this years ago!
First, some background - we live in northern California and use well water. The water is hard and has high concentrations of iron and hydrogen sulphide. ph is fine. Our old system used a calcite filter and a water softener, but it was ineffective. Iron, sulphur, and manganese were getting through. Symptoms were smelly water, stained porcelain, and black particles clogging the faucet aerators.
I got 3 quotes from professional installers, $3900, $5600 and $8400. The spread was a red flag. So I went to a chemical analytics lab and got great advice. First, I was told that iron and hydrogen sulphide are symptoms of infestation by two symbiotic bacteria, and that they can be controlled by shocking the well with chlorine. Second - I was told that It's unlikely that my well is very different from my neighbors' wells, so don't do anything strange or expensive.
So I generously chlorinated my well, and after 6 hours ran the sprinklers to clear the chlorine smell from the water. This improved the water quality going into my filters dramatically. After shocking the well like this, the garden hose bib water no longer smells like rotten eggs. This reduces the amount of filtering that the softener plus filter have to do. Most important it prevents the bacterial slime from getting into the filter and softener.
Even after shocking the well my water quality was bad. It was time to replace my 20 year old softener and filter. I decided to do it myself, and installed this filter along with a softener from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LZNEM8E/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Installation was simplified by using sharkbite fittings.
The good news is that the system has worked flawlessly over the past year. The water even tastes perfect!
Shocking the well: It's time to shock when there is bacterial infestation indicated by brown slime, rust staining, and a rotten eggs smell.
*Shock chlorination may leach arsenic into your well water. Avoid drinking well water until leached arsenic has been confirmed to have been flushed from your well.*
First bypass the softener (my understanding is that chlorine will damage softener resin). Pour liquid chlorine down the well. I used about a quart of liquid pool chlorine, but a few gallons of household bleach can be used as an alternative. The amount of chlorine to use depends on the volume of water in the well. You may need more chlorine if your well is very deep. I also drop in a dozen or so chlorine pellets that sink and sanitize the bottom of the well.
https://www.amazon.com/CHLORINE-SANITIZER-PELLETS-LANDOMATIC-CHLORINATOR/dp/B00U1H48XM/ref=sr_1_4?crid=3ET11SINBSN1R&keywords=chlorine+pellets+for+well+water&qid=1568829511&s=gateway&sprefix=chrlorine+pe%2Caps%2C194&sr=8-4
Then recirculate water by running a hose into the well. Run until the water going into the well smells strongly of chlorine. Disconnect the hose, close the well, and let the chlorine stand in the well for about 6 hours. Then flush all the chlorine water out by running your sprinklers or watering your flower beds. The water may be brown and smelly when you start flushing, but will eventually clear. When there is no longer even a trace of chlorine in the unfiltered water, return the softener bypass valves to the operate position, and you are done!
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Complete AFWFilters Air Injection Silver Series with Fleck 2510SXT Digital Air Injection Control
Air Injection Silver System by AFWFilters
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Best purchase I've made in years
Wish I could give it 100 stars.This product saved my house. We had bought a country house and after a year we were ready to move out because of the rotten egg smelling well water. Showers tasted like blood.I tried the Big Blue 10" carbon-block filter inline with a 5 micron sediment filter. It worked for 6 days. Then it was back to rotten egg.I found this product on Amazon with amazing reviews. It worked awesome.Shipping was fast-ish, but had to call the company to ensure I got all my sediment/gravel. It's much less volume than I expected. It came separate in just two small boxes.The water pictures below show the efforvecence or bubbling that the iron filter introduces in the water. The pictures are taken over about 15 seconds total time.I also took before/after pictures of my iron test. Before: 1.0+ ppmAfter: 0 ppmI have pretty dirty water coming from the well, so I've kept a string-wound sediment filter in line (before the iron filter)I had a plumber friend help me with install, so it went quick. Really I probably could have handled it with shark-bite fittings... He ended up using uponor stretch fittings and installation was quick.I also bought the Fleck 5600sxt water softener to get along with this and the similar controls make it easy to program the units.You can see in the installed image, just how rust-brown the incoming line is. (right top of picture)
