Rust stains and sulphur smells on marsh-edge wells, an off taste in newer subdivisions. We test first, then filter.
We install well water treatment and whole-home filtration for homes and farms across Bradford West Gwillimbury, in Simcoe County, just across the Holland River from our base in Holland Landing. Our first question to callers: where does your water come from?
Whether you are in Green Valley, Grand Central or Summerlyn Village, we confirm the supply on the first visit; town water arrives disinfected, so the job is filtration for taste and fixture protection. Around Bond Head, at the Holland Marsh edge and on the concessions west of town, many properties draw untreated water from private wells.
If you have a pressure tank and a well cap outside, you are on a well; tell us when you call, and mention any septic bed, since it affects where filter backwash can drain. See also plumbing services in Bradford and the AquaTec Plumbing home page.
Some Bond Head and marsh-edge wells carry iron, some hardness too; only a test of your own well shows which.
Orange rings and rust-tinted laundry say plenty. A slimy film in the toilet tank usually means iron bacteria, which foul filter media faster.
We test for iron, manganese, hardness, pH and hydrogen sulphide, then measure pump output: a filter can only backwash on the flow the well delivers.
The filter goes right after the pressure tank, ahead of the water heater, with a bypass valve. If testing found hydrogen sulphide, we pick a filter that oxidizes it too.
New staining stops; old rings need one last scrub. Water running late at night is the backwash.
Read our guide to iron and sulphur in local well water, compare iron and sulphur water filters, or see our well water treatment service page.
Older or shallower wells near the marsh also get tested for colour, odour and bacteria, since surface water reaches them more easily.
Dug or shallow wells, aging casings and buried well caps can take in surface water after heavy rain or the melt.
Tea-coloured water or a swampy smell is worth reporting, but only a lab result shows bacteria.
UV needs clear water, so it goes last, after the iron filter and a fine sediment cartridge; leftover iron or colour shades the lamp.
We disinfect and flush the lines past it, then resample. It treats water only while the power is on, so flush the taps after an outage.
In Green Valley, Grand Central and Summerlyn Village, we measure hardness at your tap rather than assume it. A point-of-entry water filtration system cannot remove hardness, but it handles taste and keeps grit out of builder-grade fixtures and heaters.
Sediment housing first, carbon second, near the meter, with a bypass so changing a cartridge never means draining the house. Copper supply gets a bonding jumper.
Owners notice the disinfectant taste gone first. Cost follows access, pipe type and housing size; see our whole-home water filtration service.
Scale comes from hardness, and treating hardness is a softener's job; on a well, a softener copes far better once the iron is removed. See water softener installation in Bradford.
Reverse osmosis in Bradford treats drinking water at one sink, not the whole home. We price each separately.
Farms and market gardens around the marsh use far more water than a household, so iron is only half the sizing question.
We ask what else the well feeds: a barn, wash station or greenhouse. A filter sized on iron alone runs out between backwashes and lets iron through.
More volume means more backwashes, each needing pump flow and a quiet window with no water use, which on a farm is not always overnight.
Where the use allows, irrigation or livestock lines split off ahead of the filter, so a smaller unit is often enough.
Price follows tank size, how many lines are split and the drain run, and you get it in writing before work starts.
Many rural Bradford properties have a sump pit and a septic bed. We decide where backwash goes, following the Ontario Building Code, before choosing the filter.
Bradford sits in Simcoe County, so the lab side of a well test runs through a different health unit than in York Region.
On a Bond Head or concession well, at the pressure tank ahead of any softener; on town water, at the first cold tap past the meter.
A bacteria test needs a sterile bottle from the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit. We fill it with you at an untreated cold tap.
Once the iron filter has backwashed, the kitchen tap is tested against the pressure tank reading. After UV, the lines are disinfected and a fresh health unit bottle is filled.
Resample a marsh-edge or concession well for bacteria a few times a year, including after the spring melt; orange stains coming back mean a chemistry retest.
For more detail, see water testing for wells and town water or UV water purification.
Well or town water, tell us what you see. Every water treatment quote comes with a free water test, and we test before recommending anything.
