Well Water Treatment

Well water arrives untreated and its content changes from one borehole to the next — and often from one season to the next in the same borehole. That is why no single unit is the answer here. Well water is handled with a sequence of stages ordered from a raw water analysis: what comes out first depends on what is actually in the water.

What to measure first

• Hardness (°fH): decides whether softening is needed and how much resin.
• Iron and manganese: the usual cause of orange or black staining, and the reason an oxidation stage may come before filtration.
• Turbidity (NTU) and sand: decides the sediment stage and how often it will be backwashed.
• Conductivity / TDS: decides whether reverse osmosis belongs in the line at all.
• Microbiological load: where present, a UV (ultraviolet) stage is added to reduce microbiological risk.

Why the order of stages matters

Put a softener ahead of an iron filter and the resin fouls within months. Put a UV lamp ahead of a sediment filter and turbidity shadows the water so the lamp does far less than its rating suggests. Put an RO membrane behind unfiltered well water and it blocks. Each stage protects the one after it, and getting the sequence wrong is the most common and most expensive mistake on well supplies.

If you do not have an analysis

Send us what you have — even a photo of the staining or a description of the smell narrows things down. We will tell you which tests to have done. If the system is purchased from us, we measure your water during the site survey at no charge; if you want the survey and measurement only, a fee of 2,000 TL applies.