Lake well water question???????

[Cane Pole]

My neighbor has a deep well (60-80 ft). Over July 4th he pumped it try, but has begun to fill back up. Only problem is the water smells like rotten eggs (sulfur). Anyone know the cause/cure for this?

I have never heard of this. I have had well water all my life.

State inspector is coming out, but who knows what will show up.

[Barnacle Bill]

He's got to move the well. Probably not very far. Its my understanding sulfur veins run perpendicular to water veins.

[rdant]

I had a well that had sulfur smell. He can put in a carbon filter in to take the smell out. If he pumped it dry, I would be more worried about that. He my have to drill a new well. I thought most of the people in Tn had city water.

[Cane Pole]

I had a well that had sulfur smell. He can put in a carbon filter in to take the smell out. If he pumped it dry, I would be more worried about that. He my have to drill a new well. I thought most of the people in Tn had city water.

I live on the poor side of town.

[1weezer]

Tom, Your lake house is pretty close to the old sulfer well that use to pump out into the Big Sandy River way back before the lake was built. It may be a part of that.

[wannabe fisherman]

When I was a young lad in the eastern part of Jefferson County, about 8 miles from Louisville Ky. which is almost downtown now. there were several wells in the neighborhood. All of them were sulfur wells except ours. I remember my Dad telling me about how when he had our well drilled they went to 25 ft. and no water, seems all the sulfur wells were about that deep. Dad had them go to 30 ft and they hit pure water,luckily when they went 3 more ft for the well foot nothing happened. We had the best water around. When we sold the house in the late 70's that well was still there and still had good water in it.Should've bottled it and made a fortune.LOL :D
PS We never could run it dry.

[rdant]

I was at Springville pump house last spring and couldn't believe how much it had changed in the 10 or 15 years since I had been there. When I first started coming to Tn. we camped at the pump house.

[joejv4]

In the rural area I live in, everyone outside the village proper is on a well, and some get sulfur water and some don't. It's almost one of those luck of the draw kind of things. Lots of folks end up digging (or drilling) another well in another spot on their property to find water without the sulfur.

[CatFan]

It's hydrogen sulfide. Water treatment places can get rid of it with about a $1500 unit that's like a softener, but you never have to add anything. Usually seen in deeper wells, but it depends where you are.

[J White]

Dang Mr. Tom, I thought that just came with the territory up there

Our one and only stay at the Manserd Island dump I mean campground:rolleyes: the water in the showers smelled like sulphur so
bad you had to hold your breath and run through it to wash your hiney:D