Sears 625.34929 - Manual (Page 5)

TREATING WELL WATER ВЕГОЖ INSTALLING SYSTEM
PRE-TREATING PRIVATE WELL SYSTEMS
HAVING IRON BACTERIA — Before you put the
dispensing system together and install it, chlor­
inate the well if it contains more than 10 parts per
million (ppm) of bacterial iron. Use the following
steps.
NOTE: If you don’t chlorinate the well, you may
have iron in your water for up to 2 months after
you install the solution dispensing system,
1. For each 50 gallons of water in the well, pour 1
quart of ordinary household bleach into it. On
some wells, you can pour the bleach through the
breather pipe. On others, you may have to remove
the well seal.
NOTE: You will probably have to estimate how
much water is in the well and use a trial and error
method of treatment, or else ask a qualified well
technician.
ACAUTION: This much chlorine, at one time,
could exhaust the activated carbon in a taste
and odor filter. If you have a taste and odor
filter in your water system, by pass it to keep
the chlorine out while doing this pre-treating.
2. Pour several gallons of water into the well to
flush the bleach down to the water level.
3 Open all faucets in the house, 1 at a time.
Close each faucet when you can smell the
bleach. Keep the water system closed for a
minimum of 2 hours If possible, keep closed
overnight
4. After 2 hours, or the next morning, open all
faucets and let the water run until clear and the
bleach odor is gone
TOOLS NEEDED — You will need common and
cross point (Phillips) screw drivers, a slip-joint
pliers, tape measure or rule, and a sharp knife.
Depending on the kind of pipes you have in your
house, other tools you may need are.......
. . .for SOLDERED COPPER — tubing cutter,
propane torch, solid-core solder, paste flux, emery
cloth, sandpaper or steel wool.
... for THREADED PIPE — hacksaw or pipe cutter,
pipe wrenches, pipe threading tool, pipe joint
compound,
. . .for CPVC PLASTIC — hacksaw, adjustable
wrench, solvent cement, fine emery cloth.
MATERIALS — Depending on where and how you
install the Solution Dispensing System (page 7),
you may have all the things needed. Things not
included with the system thatyou may need are...
. . If you have to install an electrical outlet (page
11), you will need materials meeting electrical
wiring codes , wire, outlet box, receptacle, wire
nuts or tape, etc,
. . .If you will pump solution directly into the well
(see pages 7 and 8} you may need more tubing.
Read the note under step 2 on page 8.
,. .If you will pump solution into the water system
between the well pump and pressure tank (see
pages 7 and 10), you may need some of the pipe
fittings shown in FIG. 6, page 10.