Bleaching Well System

Turn off the well system.

Bleaching well system.

A chlorine test kit can be used to precisely measure chlorine levels in the water rather than relying on scent alone. Pour chlorine bleach into the well. You will introduce the chlorine there. Add bleach to the well.

Turn on the outside garden hose and stick it back into the well and leave it running. If you have chlorine pellets that you have purchased from us drop in twenty five to thirty pellets in addition to the bleach. Shut off the well power supply drain the water heater and empty any other tanks connected to the well. Flush the system especially if the water from the well is cloudy.

Turn the electric power to the well system back on. You may need up to 10 gallons 37 9 l of bleach depending on the volume of water within your well and the strength of the bleach. Pour the bleach into your well or through the vent pipe. If the well is no more than 50 feet deep use 1 quart of bleach.

If that cloudiness in the water is tds or total dissolved solids it will absorb the sodium hypochlorite used in the bleach and weaken it you don t want to do this every 6 months so get a complete kill. Pour in 1 gallon of regular household chlorine bleach down the well shaft.