Testing well water

[savdoc2]

I am not an expert on pools, but we do have a well. We decided not to use our well to fill our pool for a couple of reasons. 1) the minerals and other stuff in the water 2) It would probably lower the water table to a point that we could get a lot of silt, etc in the water and it would take a while for the table to refill. 3) We run all our water through 2 sets of filters and a softern (then an RO system for drinking water) before it goes to any of the water spigots and we didn't want to work the filters so hard.

Instead we haul water from the local town water supply. It works for us.

[Brock]

We also have well water and run it through 3 filters actually before it hits our dual softener and finally R/O for drinking water. Our well water is about 2200 ppm of TDS, we had it tested before installing all the house water system. They suggested if I did fill the pool to use the filtered / softened water. Fortunately we live on the bay of Green Bay, an inlet off Lake Michigan so I fill the pool with that water. A person who lives out near us but not on the water fillers theirs with rain collected from their roof, but had to initially truck in the majority of fill water.

Hopefully you well water isn't so bad, but without good testing it's hard to say. A local water place like Culligan or similar should be able to test your water relatively easily and let you know what’s in it.

[prh129]

I have a water softener connected right after the well tank so everything goes through it (unless I close the bypass valve then everything would be unsoftened.) I have hard water with (I believe soluble) iron in it.

I got the initial fill trucked in as a 24' round (13500 gal) demand sounded like way too much for a well pump.

I just got the pool installed so I don't have much experience to pass on but from what I have researched, I believe it is better to remove things like iron and other minerals BEFORE they go into the pool rather than after the fact.

You might want to consider adding a separate feed after your water softener just for pool use.