Sally,
I have a well that needs some attention, in fact needs lots of attention. As you are in the same part of the world as myself how did you go about getting the well assessed and are there specialist companies who "refurbish" wells.
Thanks,
Brad
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Brad,
I am in the fortunate position that my OH is rather handy at all this stuff. (He's and engineer with a very hands on can-do attitude!) So he's been doing all this himself.
The Environmental Health folk can test water - the Water Service used to do it.
Anyway if you want to chat further, I've sent you a PM with our phone no.
Sally
I am in the fortunate position that my OH is rather handy at all this stuff. (He's and engineer with a very hands on can-do attitude!) So he's been doing all this himself.
The Environmental Health folk can test water - the Water Service used to do it.
Anyway if you want to chat further, I've sent you a PM with our phone no.
Sally
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I have purchased a stock of U.V. lamps for water purification, and am working on a low tech U.V. water steriliser.kenneal wrote:If you've got mains water use it, and drainage too. You will generally put more energy into treating water yourself than your local utility will doing it for you. Economies of scale definitely work in water supply and disposal.
If, however, you are preparing for PO Doomsday you will want the simplest set up possible as even UV lamps may be difficult to get hold of in that scenario. A hand pump and a gravity sand filter would last for years with only the sand needing replacement occasionally. Keep your family silver for a final bacterial treatment of the water
A design was published some while ago in home power and should be in the archive
http://www.homepower.com/archive/
though I cant find it!
My proposed design will be an improvement, in that the UV lamp will be immersed in the water.
The UV lamps last for thousands of hours, and storing enough replacements for a lifetime is easy, remember a few spare ballasts too.
SAFETY WARNING anyone thinking of experimenting should be aware that the UV lamps used for sterilisation emit VERY DANGEROUS UV radiation. Also be aware that these lamps, even if supplied from a battery, operate at a dangerous voltage, and proper care should be taken.
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That should have said "sand needing washing occaisionally" The sand will last indefinitely.kenneal wrote:If you've got mains water use it, and drainage too. You will generally put more energy into treating water yourself than your local utility will doing it for you. Economies of scale definitely work in water supply and disposal.
If, however, you are preparing for PO Doomsday you will want the simplest set up possible as even UV lamps may be difficult to get hold of in that scenario. A hand pump and a gravity sand filter would last for years with only the sand needing replacement occasionally . Keep your family silver for a final bacterial treatment of the water
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Pump clean water through it backwards or scape off the top layer and wash it separately.RenewableCandy wrote:How does one wash sand?
It's best to have at least two filters running in parallel as it takes about three weeks for the Shmutzdecker layer, the active layer, to regenerate if you wash it out.
Re: Water filtration
that's an idea that i trust,then using the filtration we can remove the water to the unclean bacteria,so that it looking for us..
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