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- Grit and rock flour
- Sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB)
- Iron related bacteria (IRB)
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- Grit
- Develop well
- Pump shroud
- Cyclonic filter
- Serial filtration
- Rock flour
- Backwashing sediment filter
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- Sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB)
- Disinfection - use enough @ proper pH
- Repeat
- Circulation and movement
- Iron related bacteria (IRB)
- Prevention - pump placement
- Rehab - clean, line, and pump placement
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- Slime on drop pipe and pump
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- Sample container on lab paperwork (left)
- Sample container on blue notebook (right)
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- Video Inspection Goals
- Note casing joints / total casing depth
- Seasonal water level & static water level
- Casing / rock seal
- Pump location
- Water production zones
- Pumping water level
- Locations for packer placement
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- Drilled in the 1960s; extended
abovegrade
- 96+ deep and 20+ gpm
- Pump @ 86; static level 26
- Water zones: 83½ and 92Ύ to 95
- Drilled well from 110 to 130
- Magnet measured 74 galvanized casing
- Installed packer to 81; pump @ 75
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- Blowing out water from Butchs well (left)
- Water high in ferric sulfate flows over water high in iron slime.
(right) Good odor too!
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- Vinyl PVC packer is bonded to 4 PVC pipe
- Liner pipe is glued to upper end of packer
- Outside diameter of fins is approximately 7
- As liner is installed in well, fins compress and seal against rock wall
- Annular space above fins is filled with grout
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- 160psi liner pipe
- 1st bell has been cut & saved
- Griffits packer with Shale Trap installed on liner pipe
- 121 liner to be installed in well
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- Well with Liner
- Deeper water is good
- Seal-off small shallow zones
- Packer/liner is installed to maximum depth practicable (81)
- Pump is installed to minimum depth practicable (75)
- Proper well disinfection is essential before pump installation
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- Liner pipe held with Riser Clamp
- Completed wellhead with 4 wellseal
- Complete grout at later date
- MockRock will be installed over wellhead
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- John Nykamp, R.S.
- Environmental Health Program Specialist
- Guilford County Public Health Department
- 400 W. Market St
- Greensboro, N.C. 27401
- (336)641-4807 (336)641-7613
- FAX (336)641-3730
- jnykamp@co.guilford.nc.us
- Well Contractor Certification Commissioner
- http://www.ncwelldriller.org/
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