do you drink your well water?
We are new to the area. Our private well water tested OK and we've been drinking it. However, many of our neighbors buy bottled water. So I'm wondering, how many of you drink your private well water, and what sort of filtration (if any) do you do? Thanks!
Janet 
I have city water, but my relatives in Long Valley that have well water either use the built in refrigerator filtration or a Brita pitcher.
ChrisFor the most part, I don't. I don't like the taste of it even though it has tested safe. My son and my mother who moved in with us don't mind the taste. I buy poland spring by the gallon for my drinking water and water for coffee but use the tap water for all cooking
I drink it. I look at it this way, I trust water that is from the well more than I trust poland spring.
Joe F Absolutely. As long as it tests fine and you don't mind the taste I think it's fine. Test regularly just to be safe. Totally agree with Joe F - if you've read anything about bottled water you know that it's no guarantee that it's any better than any tap water. In my last place (also in LV, also a well) I used a filter. Isn't needed in my current house.
I have a well, the water is potable. But, it is loaded with iron. I have a water treatment system, a softener that requires salt and a device called a berm that acts as a filter. I have it checked and serviced regularly. Long Valley's ground is loaded with low grade iron ore. Have you ever tried to dig a hole in the ground around here? it's very difficult.
We Buy Poland springs water too, it tastes good and I like the fact that I can offer visitors a a bottle of water they can take with them. What matters most about bottled water is that it is tested before you buy it, and it is filtered. The best tasting filtered water is charcoal filtered water. Remember, you need some of the minerals in water for nutrition. If you have children and are drinking well water make sure they get a fluoride treatment from the dentist. Well water does not have fluoride in the water. Some municipalities put fluoride in the water at the treatment plant.
Besides politics, I am a huge This Old House fan. Some guys play golf on the weekend, I like to work on my house on the weekends.
Tom Lotito Does the town test the water if its well water or do I have to have a private company do it? I know it was tested when we bought the house and it was fine but we still don't drink it.
blackcat Call the health dept, I think that they test the water for potability. You might want to have it tested independently whether it's city water or a well.
i grew up on LV well water and loved it! i have always hated city water. as long as it tests safe, you should be fine. we recently moved to lv with a family of my own and we have city water and i HATE it. i want well water back.
momof2boys Yes, we drink and cook with our well water and have for the past 23 years. We have a water softener but no filters. Like the reply above from momof2boys, we HATE city water. It is flouridated and flouride is NOT meant to be ingested!!
Arjo55 I live in long valley and drink the well water regularly. I think it tastes normal and it's always comes out of the faucet extremely cold, which is a plus.
Joe I live in LV, I have 'city water,' and I have two little ones so I called the water department to find out if the city water is fluoridated and they say it is NOT. I needed to know so that I could decide whether or not to give my kids a fluoride supplement for their teeth.
We’ve lived in the valley for about 20 years now. We’re about ½ mile from the old Colmbe landfill. We drank bottled water most of that time. Our well water tested fine last about 10 years ago. With all the talk about chemicals in the plastic now we decided to test the water again and maybe start drinking it. There are several kinds of test you can get through the town office. Of course you have to pay for it. We spent $185 that tested for everything. The result came back in about a week and the water fell within all the standard measurements for the many things that it looked for. We also tested for bacteria and found none. The well water taste a little different from the bottled water but I guess that would be expedited. We still use some bottles for when we’re on the go.
My links to the Colmbe landfill site didn’t take so here they are again in case you didn’t know about it. It was a superfund site, capped maybe 15 years ago.
http://projects.publicintegrity.org/Superfund/Site.aspx?act=0200489
http://www.epa.gov/Region2/superfund/npl/0200489c.pdf
http://www.epa.gov/region2/superfund/npl/combefillsouth/
Thanks Ron for the information about the Colmbe landfill - Did not come up when I looked - However the ITC Trade zone site behind Walmart did show up.
Coralie Just got a letter from the EPA. Their coming to the area to test the water in about 180 homes around the Combe landfill this month. They said it’s just a follow up to make sure everything is ok.
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