Well water - to use or not to use

[Tredge]

BTW. My Pool is 40,000 Gallons and has been drained and refilled every year by the previous owners for the last 30 years!
I dont plan to do it that way but thats what they did

Takes over 3 days to fill with two hoses. To my knowlege the well pump never needed replacing.

Water is clear and doing well.

[gwrace1]

We checked into having our 26000 gallon pool filled by truck. However the companies could not guarantee that the water would be any better or have less metals than what was coming our of our well.

We ended up filling the pool from our well. It took five days. We prefiltered the water through a whole house iron filter which then fed a softener. It took several fills of salt and regeneration cycles to complete the process. We then pretreated the water with metal out and Polyquat 60% added the salt and let it circulate for 3-5 days before cranking up the SWG. The water has been crystal clear since startup in early March.

I now fill from a water source that is not softened but has a whole house iron filter on it. I don't want the softened water changing my salt levels.

[prh129]

Just out of curiosity, where does the water come from that the water truck people bring? This might be a stupid question, but I honestly don't know. It's not like distilled or spring water is it? That would be really super expensive, right?

I opted to get my water trucked in as I knew my well would not be able to keep up with the demand (since I filled it before we got the 20 or so inches of rain over the last two months). The company I used gets their water from several city drinking water supplies depending on where the destination is. If you call to get a quote you can ask them where they get theirs from.

Peter