John, actually many folks do what R J did but then again I have met slumlords who housed some of my former clents and when the water was bad they simply dumped one or two gallons of bleach down the well. waited a day and called the Health department to give them a pasing water test. I wish we lived close to a fresh spring. Lee
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 01:23:45PM -0400, john schwery wrote: > RJ, when you pour bleach down the well, doesn't that affect the taste > of your water? How much do you pour? > > earlier, RJ, wrote: > >I been a city person most of my life, until 6 years ago. I can tell you > >there is a all together set of learning to do, living in the country. Last > >week I had my son and his family of 4 on a weeks visit. Well last Saturday > >the pressure went to 0 and the pump wasn't working. I took off the pressure > >switch cover and had my son throw the tester on the points. There was juice. > >I than went out and took the black tape off the wires in the well. The > >tester had a very fine light. Back to the basement. The pump started to run > >but the pressure wasn't there before the pump shut down agan.Found a valve > >near the pressure valve about 1/2 hour later and open the valve and tapped > >the pressure valve. The pump started up again. But shut down. Figured with > >all the iron in my water, that the pressure valve was plugged after 6 years. > >Open the valve agan and gently tapped the valve. the pumped kicked on and I > >let the water run for a while. Now the pump runs, the pressure is back to > >normal and I am going to purchase another pressure valve just in case. But I > >will be doing the same thing to the pressure valve as I do to the holding > >tank and water tank, that will be to flush them out once a month. I did pour > >some bleach down the well today for my spring clean out. > > > >RJ > > > > > > > >------------------------------------ > > > >Send any questions regarding list management to: > >blindhandyman-ow...@yahoogroups.com > >To listen to the show archives go to link > >http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 > >Or > >ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > > >The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > >http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > > >Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From > >Various List Members At The Following address: > >http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ > > > >Visit the archives page at the following address > >http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ > > > >If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the > >following address for more information: > >http://www.jaws-users.com/ > >For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy > >Man list just send a blank message to: > >blindhandyman-h...@yahoogroups.comyahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > John > -- Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. -- Winston Churchill .
