Bleaching a water system.

I use a quart of Clorox per 150 gallons of water on my camping trailer and it will clean out that system if it is very stale. I dump that water because it has too much chlorine to drink. After cleaning, I fill my tanks with fresh water from the well and it tastes great.

I doubt that you will have to do "several treatments" if you get the bleach thoroughly through the system. If you can put it in at the well or pump, you will treat your whole system. Run all the faucets till you smell chlorine in both the hot and cold water lines. Let it sit for an hour and you should pretty well sanitize the system.

You can contaminate the system when you do plumbing work. I have inline filters at house, barn, etc and I fill them with bleach whenever I have the water system open or install new parts from the supply house.

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