I have a new well and an old well. The old well is perfectly drinkable
but low production. When I drink from the new well, 250' away, I
suffer intestinal tenderness and bloating, which goes away a few days
after I stop drinking this water. I sterilized the new well and
associated plumbing with bleach before hooking it into the system. The
new well is several hundred feet from the septic. I have tested for
bacteria, at a sink tap, 3 different ways - 2 outside labs and one home
test kit, all tested negative. I tried sterilizing the water using a
pressure cooker at 15 pounds pressure for 20 minutes, and still
suffered the same ill effects. I sent a sample to National Testing
Laboratories who tested for 17 different metals, a handful of anions,
and dozens of organics. No organics were detected, and the metals and
anions were all way below the maximum permissible levels. I have
installed a .5 micron activated charcoal filter in line with the
kitchen sink tap to no avail. Any thoughts?



1: Way below permissible levels doesn't mean there's nothing
that can trigger sensitivities, it just means there's
nothing wrong with it that should cause illness in
normal people.

2: Did you get all the bleach out of the system after
shocking it?

3: Do you drink water from any other source except the
old well? You could just be reacting to the change,
or to the absence of something in the old well.

4: Boiling won't help. Boiling is for killing microbes,
and you aren't seeing any.

I say you plumb from both wells, and save the output
from the old one for drinking water, and feed the
other one to the bathrooms, laundry, and outside taps.