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Closer to 5's than 10's
Read some stuff here, https://www.epa.gov/privatewells/protect-your-homes-water#how testing to pass their standards means only that it has to be potable, not quality or purified.
The in home water testing guys are selling "magic medicine" or snake oil. None of them (that I talked to)offer a money back guarantee. I hired a microbiologist after getting very frustrated. Turns out, I have (had) Iron
Reducing Bacteria that produce that orange/yellow/red color. This stuff is commonly found in the Charles/St. Mary's/Calvert water aquifers, but rarely do homeowners hear about it because the EPA/state doesn't require a test for it. Simple chlorination will remove it (chlorine breaks its slime shell and makes it die). Automatic chlorinators or well shocking will accomplish it. Hire an independent lab to test your water, not a sales guy.
A good video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQG8d_ZuuaI
Test kits can be gotten here :
http://www.hach.com/bart-test-combi...forming-bacteria-3-each/product?id=7640250884
https://www.uswatersystems.com/bart-iron-and-sulfur-reducing-bacteria-tests.html
How to shock a well:
http://www.water-research.net/index.php/shock-well-disinfection
http://extension.psu.edu/natural-re...tment/shock-chlorination-of-wells-and-springs
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/wells/waterquality/disinfection.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQG8d_ZuuaI
Some good places to research at:
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/wells/waterquality/ironbacteria.html
http://www.ngwa.org/Documents/ClipCopy/Iron-Bacteria.pdf
http://www.water-research.net/index.php/bacteria
The in home water testing guys are selling "magic medicine" or snake oil. None of them (that I talked to)offer a money back guarantee. I hired a microbiologist after getting very frustrated. Turns out, I have (had) Iron
Reducing Bacteria that produce that orange/yellow/red color. This stuff is commonly found in the Charles/St. Mary's/Calvert water aquifers, but rarely do homeowners hear about it because the EPA/state doesn't require a test for it. Simple chlorination will remove it (chlorine breaks its slime shell and makes it die). Automatic chlorinators or well shocking will accomplish it. Hire an independent lab to test your water, not a sales guy.
A good video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQG8d_ZuuaI
Test kits can be gotten here :
http://www.hach.com/bart-test-combi...forming-bacteria-3-each/product?id=7640250884
https://www.uswatersystems.com/bart-iron-and-sulfur-reducing-bacteria-tests.html
How to shock a well:
http://www.water-research.net/index.php/shock-well-disinfection
http://extension.psu.edu/natural-re...tment/shock-chlorination-of-wells-and-springs
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/wells/waterquality/disinfection.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQG8d_ZuuaI
Some good places to research at:
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/wells/waterquality/ironbacteria.html
http://www.ngwa.org/Documents/ClipCopy/Iron-Bacteria.pdf
http://www.water-research.net/index.php/bacteria