Well - it's about IRON anyway!
The well at the cottage is getting progressively worse - sulpher smell
and iron stains etc.
I think the well needs to be shocked - but the well-head is about 4
feet underground out in the yard between two trees. I really don't
want to have to dig it out one weekend, leave it open , work on it a
few weeks later, then backfill after I'm sure the shock had done it's
job. Really should extend the well casing above ground level if I do
dig it out - all more work than I really want to do before freezup.

So - the question -
With a submursible pump, could I just tap in to the line between the
pump and the check valve and install a "tap" that I can connect a
garden hose to, fill the bathtub with water, add chlorine to the tub,
shut off the pump, connect the hose to the tap and the tub, open the
tap and siphon the chlorine mix from the tub into the well? Or ose a
little "pony" pump to pump the water from the tub into the well?

The tub is a good 5 feet higher than the water line.
The pipe from the well to the checkvalve is black plastic, so putting
a tap in should be less than an hour's work - even counting a run into
the hardware store to get the parts.

What say you guys with well experience - can it be done?

I know it will not be as effective as flooding the well casing from
the top - but it might make enough improvement to carry through to
nice weather next summer????
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