Brown Water from my faucet

Tell me it is’nt my well! Last night I noticed that my water coming from the faucets in the house are coming out kinda tannish in color. Tried just cold water and it did it also. Making some calls today,but thought I’d ask here first.No…….there are no filters on my lines.

That doesn’t sound good…………

But a silly question first…….Do you run a water softner? If your softner is low on salt, that may create brown water, as the salt “purify’s” limestone water. The browness may actually be rust.

If that isn’t the case, sounds like you may actually have problems with the well itself…….

OR

Your septic tank exploded and is leaking into the well!!!!!

Sometimes we’d get this back at my parents house, usually rust, seems every once in awhile the city flushes out a line somewhere are stirs up some rust, we just ran all the faucets until they ran clear again, and I’m still alive

Had that happen a couple times. Guys that take care of well told me some rust fell of well pipe. Mine went away in a day and haven’t had any trouble in 2 years. Probaly wouldn’t hurt to get it checked. They might want you to pour some bleach down it. Hope it’s nothing serious. You can put a lot of fishing trips in a well in a hurry. Good luck.

Let your water sit for 30 mins then try running your water in the basement (cold) for at least 10-15 mins. I used to have this happen to me with well water and that would usually clear it up. Good luck!

Happens at my place once in awhile. Last time I was out of salt in the softner, before that it just needed to be back flushed and added some red out. Some of the areas get new deposit in the wells when you get a lot of water moving through the soil, this clears up on its own. With the warm weather we are having, I think that it is the water moving.

Thanks guy’s. Ran the water last night and then again this morning.I’m hoping it’s the rust thing!
(Or low on Salt)

From your title, I thought, “I’ve had that problem.” But I drank some beer and it went away.

That was too obvious to pass up. Sorry.

I coulda figured that out myself! I would’nt have needed your diagnosis on that!!!!

Just a note, if it has been that way for a couple of days then the best thing to do is once the cold water clears up, need to drain the hot water heater to get all the red out.

Thnaks Chico.

We have a well too, and during Winter (low water use) from time to time we see reddish water start coming from the hard water faucets. I just go out and run a hose into the woods for an hour and we’re back in business..nice clean water. I have a sediment filter, iron filter and then a softener in line before it hits anything inside the house. Our water is always perfect after running through that stuff. I’d guess you are seeing rust but could be wrong.

Could it be the toxic waste dump you live on? And you wondered why the price was so cheap!
How many miles from Prarie Island are you?

Knowing what Chappy is full of, the overflowing septic could be a possibility!

Not much closer to Prarie than you are! Think I might have it figured out.I’ll know for sure in a day or 2.

I would bet on the hot water heater needing flushing also. you need to flushit till it runs as clean as it can get. dont just drain it. This is usually the issue if you dont have major problems. should be done once a year to sustain the life of the heater also. FF

Since you have a well and not city water…AND you still have water…a chunck of iron broke off from the well pipes. A broken pipe will do this too, but unless it broke under the water line there wouldn’t be water coming out of the faucets.

Let us know the final out come…Good Luck!

And don’t forget to wipe your “Faucet!”

Good News, Good News!!!!! Well..It’s not all good new’s but it’s not the well!!! That’s the part that’s good. Bad news is I had a bad pressure tank!Cost me $200 bucks but it’s now fixed. A buddy put it in for nothing (Dinner at a later date) But well worth it!