Question for you folks on wells

We live in the Pleasant Park area and for many years have had brown water during the spring. When kiddos were younger we would have it tested but never a problem to bathe in or drink. Never have used chlorination/shocking.

Back up, everybody!

The question is situational.

Where is the well? How long has the place not been occupied (if at all)? How deep is the well?

There ARE areas where spring runoff affects water quality, and that doesn't mean the well water is ruined or that the RE brokers shouldn't be marketing the home. There are systems that can be installed if monitoring discloses a problem.

I believe that GeoWater suggests everybody test their water every year. Otherwise, if your water is discolored, tastes funny or you just have that "uncertain" feeling, they are happy to check it and suggest a remedy. If it turns out to be shocking on a routine basis, or installing one of their filtration systems, then you simply tell your broker that's how you maintain water purity in THAT area with THAT water well (or in the case of KV and other areas, that community supply) so that the next owner is aware that's what you do.

Naturally there are areas where the water quality may be more questionable and you can identify them with your eye in many instances. You should not expect to ever draw clean water from a 20-foot-deep well next to a stream that first meanders through a cow pasture. However, other situations are subject to remedy on a case-by-case basis.

Disclaimer: I am "BuyersAgent" on other websites and believe strongly in advocacy on behalf of the purchaser. The quality (and quantity) of well water is one of m-a-n-y significant factors to be considered in evaluating whether or not to invest. If that 20-foot-deep contaminated well is attendant to a $60,000 cabin on 20A that you don't intend to visit more than three times a year before rebuilding on the site and installing a decent replacement supply, it may be just fine to tide you over (use it to flush, but don't drink from the faucet).

Ours needed to be shocked once after our pump died and it sat dormant for about a week in the spring. That's the only time in 15 years.

Mine gets shocked with every lightning bolt in July-Aug.. Free!

LOL. I drink the water and nothin has happined to me so fer!

LOL lol ya haf to stop drinkin the water!

LOL wrote: Mine gets shocked with every lightning bolt in July-Aug.. Free!

LOL. I drink the water and nothin has happined to me so fer!

It is pretty shocking to have your place smell like a public swimming pool for a few days. If the water doesn't make you sick, then drink it, right? :LMAO:

My folks had a place in the San Luis Valley where the artesian well water had so much methane that it would ignite. No kidding: you would turn on the pump and stick your lit Bic onto the flow, the flame and water would coexist like a surreal movie. Tasted horrid no matter what you did with it! but ok for watering the vegetables.

Didn't they have that happening up in Weld County recently? Recent as in the last few years.

Yes, I think you're right. Water is Colorado's version of Forrest Gump's box of chocolates, gushers next to flaming dry holes. Ironically, my folks eventually had to leave the Valley because they couldn't put to "beneficial use" their other water well permit, and thereby lost the legal right to use it. 1000 gallons a minute put to beneficial use means you have to be irrigating crops over a number of acres, and that system is costly.

Today Greeley is about to go under altogether, glub glub. It's never good when you have to get home via canoe.

Edited to add: Now it's not so funny, the clouds are building back up. I love Greeley, one of our kids just received a doctoral degree, always enjoyed visiting her there. Prayers for Weld County water, whether too much or too little.

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