Bacteria in my water Any water/ water well experts

Chloroform or Coliform? Not sure you’d be getting chloroform in your water if you aren’t already putting something in it or living next to a terribly run chemical plant.

Is it close to your septic tank?

This is from my buddy canyon who used to be a prolific poster here. But he got put in time out but is still an avid follower. You know 2020 has been a bad year.

As others have said, coloform, especially ecoli, in your well is not good. There could be several issues at hand here. For one, how close is the well source to your septic or neighbors septic? The distance to any contributing source can affect your drinking water as well as direction of your well location. Is it downgradient to one or more of the potential contributors? Another issue as some have said could be contributing sources from livestock, although samples may show a different biological signature.

Adding chlorine to water sources, or "shocking the system" is one way to rid the local water source of bacteria, but is usually not sustainable. UV systems work, but can get expensive. Charcoal filtering and polishing systems can work, but may not reduce to healthy standards.

"Talk to a parish health department rep and see if they can assist. Most will be helpful and will actually conduct the analytical testing for you. You can grab a sample from your source. You say it's a "flow" well. Do you mean it's artesian? If so, what is the depth of the aquifer? All these will play a role in determining the final resolution. Good luck".

Signed
"maybe canyon"

It is not E. coli that test was negative.. and yes the well is on a farm cows have been on the property for 100 years. So this is my likely source.. thinking I’ll go with the UV light just to be safe. Guy quoted me 850 to install and said maintenance of changing the bulb once a year is about 175 dollars

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thinking I’ll go with the UV light just to be safe

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Peroxide could be an alternative to chlorine, as peroxide can be fed at higher doses and breaks down into water and oxygen so nothing harmful.

My mineral test is..
Iron 0.70 mg/l
Manganese 0.033 mg/l
Ph 7.34

I also has sulfur smell from time to time

They quoted me 1600 to change out my bladder tank to some other kind tank to let the sulfur out? And to put a filter on that takes out the minerals that are staining my plumbing fixtures..

What condition is the well casing and is there a slab at the well ?

Yeah it’s an old school cl ow well with no screen and one hell of a flow,, not a trickle

To properly treat a well, the bleach, some well drillers use pellets, must sit in well for approximately 8 hours or overnight. With a flowing well, the treatment doesn’t have the necessary time to work. A new well or connection to community water is the best option for good water.