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well water - turns showers orange, toilet orange washer orange?

My clothes are starting to get this weird smell, actually my whole body is. Skin, hair. I hate well water. I am assuming it is the iron in the water. I have a filter on my shower, still turns tub orange so I am assuming its still touching me too. I am going to start taking my laundry to a laundry mat. But I hate the way I smell, body & clothes. What can I do?

Public Comments

1. Move out of the trailer park.
2. I agree. It's robably iron. Your solution is in a water softener or reverse osmosis unit... big $ either way. sorry. You could drill a new well or try to get city water.. or move. good luck.
3. If you, indeed, have bacterial iron, then a chlorination/dechlorination system is the most effective. That consists of a solution tank (usually about 15 gal.), A feed pump and injector point, a retention tank with in-line mixer follwed by a backwashing carbon filter. Some may put a sediment between the retention tank and carbon filter. This will cause a couple of postive benefits. It will sanitize the water and remove additional iron that the feed water may be containing. It will also improve, taste, odor and clarity of the water. The carbon will remove/reduce a host of VOCs, organics, and other elements. Your cost, depending on the quality of the system, will be between $1300 and $2700. If you use household bleach, a standard diaphram pump will do, if you use hydrogen peroxide, the you will need a paristaltic pump. The retention should allow for 20+ minutes in most cases. The maintenance is very low and periodic carbon rebedding will required.
4. The easiest way to get this fixed is to simply get a water softener. Most can help with the removal of iron, although not 100% completely. In addition or on its own you can use an Iron Filter. But they are only useful for removal of ferrous iron and manganese; ferric iron will plug them up. They appear similar to water softeners but contain a bed of natural or synthetic manganese green sand. Manganese dioxide oxidizes iron and manganese and the oxidized particles are then filtered out in the lower part of the bed. Depending on how big a filter you want, they will range from about $400 to $800.
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6. If your water is orange then it is Iron which is in your water. It could also be Tannin. I would recommend a proper water test before you go ahead and spend your hard earned money. If it is Iron, getting a water softener will not solve this issue. A water softener will remove traces of Iron, what you would need is an Iron filter/remover. If there is tannin, then a tannin filter. I would seriously do some research before investing your money. First thing you should do is to get your water tested first and for most.
7. First get an independent water test that will show how much of ferric and ferrous iron you have, what the pH of the water is, and how hard the water is. When I say "independent", I mean from a lab that does not sell water filtration, they just make money from testing water. Ferric iron needs to be removed from water by a filter or media that filters down to 5 microns because it is a solid that is between 5 and 10 microns in size. The ferrous iron is best removed by a water softener, because it (softener) takes out dissolved minerals. The ferric iron must be removed from the water prior to it entering the softener because ferric iron will coat softener resin and render it ineffective. An important additional item to look at is the pH, because acidic water will not allow either types of iron to be completely removed. I prefer to work with water at 7.0 on the pH scale, but between 6.8 and 8.3 will work just fine. If below 6.8, consider installing a neutralizer as part of the system. It will keep the iron from being redissolved in the water by acidity. Try getting good advice from the WQA on line and then contact a reputable water treatment company in your area to help you with the correct solution.