Question about a well...

[aoconnor]

I need to "clean up" my barn water well. I have been told by several people to pour a cup of bleach into it, but here is my stupid question for you...WHERE do I pour the bleach in?! I have a well house with a small water tank, and then pipes going into the ground. I don't see anyway to get bleach into that well...what am I missing? I also would like to do that to my house well, same question though...my house well has a concrete ring around the little collection of wires running into the pump in the well...but nothing that looks like I could pour a cup of bleach into it?!

Thanks in advance for any help!!

[beowoulf90]

There should be a well cap somewhere.
The pipe you are seeing, that is going to the well tank is coming from the pump, which may or may not be in the well (that depends on type and depth of the well).

Is the well a hand dug well that has been covered over?
Or
Is there a approx. 8" pipe sticking out of the ground (or just below the ground) with a cap somewhere near by the pump house?

Is there anyway you can post pics to give us a better idea what we are talking about?

Sorry I know it's not much help..

[aoconnor]

beowoulf90, thanks for replying. I will get pics. I don't know for certain, but am fairly sure both wells were drilled, not hand dug.

[beowoulf90]

Here is a picture of a typical deep well.

Well that didn't work, no pun intended..

But here is the website it came from.

www.greeneswaterwells.com/Tips_Facts.html

[motdaugrnds]

The only type of well I know anything about is one drilled with a drilling machine, a large diameter pipe run in, a "pitless adapter" placed about 2-1/2 ft below ground and a cap (Mine is the clor blue.) placed over this pipe. The well "pump" was put into this pipe and lowered to about 10 ft from the bottom of the well. The local Health Dept tested the water, told me it was quite healthy with no contaminants; yet told me I could pour a gallon...yes a gallon (not just a cup) of chlorox into the well.

The process is to take off the blue cap, pour the gallon of bleach into that pipe and let it sit for 24 hours without using the water from it. (Making sure the cap was replaced of course.) After that 24 hours, I am to run every single faucet that well services, i.e. both in house and outdoors. I am to run each until the smell of chlorox is gone. (This never takes very long and I've only done it 2-3 times since I've lived here...since 1994. Last year my plumber had to bring up the well "pump" because a wire had to be fixed on it. He said that pump looked brand new and that the water in that well must be excellent.)

I've seen other types of wells where there is a large round concrete-looking thing sitting on top of it. I have been told that round concrete thing had to be "slid" off in order to get to the pump inside it. I suspect that would be the case were one going to pour bleach in it too.

[aoconnor]

Thanks for all the good information! I will see what I can see...hopefully I figure out how to get some bleach in the barn well! I can't do a gallon, my tanks and bands water buckets have to be filled a couple times a day when my horses are up, and they come up morning and evening for feed or hay, and I put my barn horses on overnight at that time. I can't go 24 hours without water off that well, but a cup of bleach will be sufficient for what I need I believe.

Thanks again for the info!