₦airaland Forum

diordaves:
I will suggest you adopt the chlorine method. It is highly effective against iron bacteria. Chlorine is a safe treatment for drinking water. The mix ratio is about 2 Litres of chlorine to 450 Litres of water. Safe to drink.

You can experiment though. Fetch a bucket of water from either your well or the borehole and add a tablet of chlorine (if you are using tablet) or add about one table spoon of chlorine (or according to the manufacturer) then observe. It's like magic. No odor, no film.

If you are not comfortable with chlorine mix ratio, get a swimming pool expert to do the mix for you.

kopell:
Most of these problems start form first day in the journey of borehole drilling, from my experience get a knowledgeable geophysicist survey test reports, at least 2 opinions to compare their report, it's very important. From my experience in Ajah the entire area had issues with iron in the water and you can see from every house around the neighborhood has red-ish color on there water tanks. When I invited my driller after the report, the first report suggested to drill between 55 - 60 meters to get good water, anything above the depth is salty water and we must go to another 140 meters to get clean water again. The another test suggested something similar as well, approximately in the same location without any of them meeting each other. When the driller came he was extra careful not to go beyond those recommendations and the drilled approximately 60 1/2 meters and that's how we ended up getting the best water in the entire neighborhood.

sthecy:
The woman looks innocent

Urheadmaster:
Security challenges in Nigeria nowadays baffles me

rotecch77:
That is water treatment plan (pic) but the UV is missing actually the UV doesn’t mean the water will not clean of dirty and iron, but the UV is to kill any micro and macro organisms that is present in the water.
If you still experienced unclean water here it means the set up ( chemicals and coarse aggregate ) is not well placed.
More so the nature of your water will determine the type of chemical to introduce the into the treatment plant tank… that is after lab test.
Finally you need periodical change of the chemical once you notice that the water is not clean again.
This might comes up in every 3-6months depends on the nature of your water

rotecch77:
The best thing is to sep up a full water treatment plant with UV light

2 set of stailess or fiber tank
Tank A will contain, carbon, chlorine etc
Tank B will contain, coarse aggregate diff sizes
Then UV light to kill any micro organisms
In addition if the water is salty you will need reverse osmosis system.

I have some of these for client here and off here.

diordaves:
I think it's @gbengalite who said this is common in this geological area. Yourself and @Enyinne are having the same issues. It's now clear what the problem is: you guys boreholes are not deep enough for your topography.

Your borehole drillers stopped immediately they struck water. But what kind of water? The bazooka solution is to drill another borehole until you strike FRESH WATER. Iron bacteria are found in shallow groundwater.

An effective remedial solution is to shock chlorinate the borehole instead of the water tank like l earlier posted.

There are YouTube clips on how shock chlorinate. Search and watch and adapt the method to Nigeria setting. Although it is simply pouring a measured amount of chlorine into your well or borehole.

Rural families here in the UK, USA and Australia who depend on well/borehole water shock chlorinate DIY with great success. So it's not a big deal. It's doable.

Enyinne:
Mine hv reduced considerably going by the way it was smelling when we moved in and also the colour is much better now and also bring up some small amount of rusty flim on top . I will like to eliminate it totally but i don't know my fate ,if i will ever have clean water directly from the borehole.

Gentlerespect76:
This decision is self destructive.

diordaves:
This is a clear case of iron bacteria or iron-oxidizing bacteria contamination. Iron is one of the most abundant minerals in the earth crust. As a result iron are usually widespread in groundwater. Iron bacteria are microorganisms that occur naturally in soil, surface water and shallow groundwater.

Your groundwater MAY have been contaminated either your borehole is not deep enough, your groundwater was contaminated during drilling by rusty drilling equipment, or through submersible pump installation. Iron bacteria can also enter your groundwater if the borehole was poorly constructed to allow stagnant surface water to enter the borehole. These are the sources of iron bacteria. If you can pinpoint the source as it relates to you, then you can prevent it.

However, you can block the bacteria from entering your home water network by fixing a water filter at the water tower (see picture). Buy the best quality filter. You can also adopt "shock chlorination". This involves adding an intense chlorine concentration to your water tank to disinfect it. Please follow the manufacturer instruction(s) in this respect or get someone knowledgeable.

diordaves:
At the mercy of the VPN provider..... How? I no understand.

dongc:
Sir Dave !
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Why use old wep router with only 64/128 bit encryption where there are 256bit encryption availability in virtually any routers you buy from shops...

sonnie10:
Norton is a good one

Hambivert:
Fela once said... "Teacher Teach me Nonsense"

When learning a new language, it is always easier to learn the curses, insults and generally the negative words faster than the actual language.

When teachings are conflicting, the gullible would learn one... The negative.

They said "Islam is a religion of P" but they heard Piss and they decided to always Piss on those they were taught were infidels.

To all the Muslim Imams now condemning the acts of these babarians, you are part of the cause of this crisis, for you sparogatively didn't teach them right.

sonnie10:
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diordaves:
Abeg o. Nigeria for life. No worry, Buhari and Emefiele go soon carry their wahala go.

diordaves:
You be Nigerian "for now". Wetin go come happen later?

dominique:
This headline is highly misleading, the op mischievously did this because he knows a lot of people will only read the topic and won't bother to read the main post.

@Cyynthia I hope you have achieved what you intend to achieve? Now enjoy your ban

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@somehow..... u be yoruba man.....

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