3lb, Purex is BLEACH, chlorine bleach. I hope you did not pour detergent down your well!!!!!!!!! Many brands of NON SCENTED bleach are fine for the purpose and some have the instructions on the back of the bottle for purifying water. Larger doses for cloudy water, less for clear. Dosages are a percentage thing, unless you know the size of your well, both diameter and depth of water column you can't know how much bleach is enough. It is hard to put in too much since you can run the water till the concentration drops to acceptable levels. It is easy to put in too little and not kill everything.

You seem to have a foundness for taking a poll among the good ole boys rather than acting on sound sience. People can get really sick from bad water. We aren't messing with you dude, we are trying to help you do the right thing.

You should run the water till there is NO TRACE of anything left that you put in the well, then pull a sample in accordance with the instructions you would get from the testing agency, and get a proper water analysis. It is innexpensive and quick. Not as much fun as spunk water and dead cats in the graveyard at midnight but much safer for anyone unsing the well water.

Lets say just as an example that there is a source of contamination getting undesireable biologics into your well. You shock the ^(&^^$# out of it with bleach and kill everytning. Yu might now pass the colliform bacteria tests now (e. Coli is a marker organism for detecting fecal contamination of your water) Whoopee!!! A couple weeks later the chlorine concentration is quite low and you are drinking s--t again.

I am reminded of the guy who didn't want to have the operation so he paid a few bucks to have the X-Rays retouched. You need to run a lot of water and then get it tested.

Again, sure hope you didn't add detergent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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