How do you get sediment out of well water?
Catch it with a sediment filter at the pressure tank, sized to the particles that are getting through, and find out why it is entering the well. Sudden sediment after years of clear water usually means a dropping water table pulling from the silty bottom, a pump set too low, a failing well screen, or a slug of iron bacteria sloughing off the casing.
Run an outside spigot for 20 to 30 minutes. Water that clears was a stirred-up slug; water that stays gritty is an ongoing source. Grit that settles is mineral sediment. Fluff that stays suspended, especially orange or black, is biological, and that is a cleaning problem rather than a filter problem.
A well that keeps producing sand or silt needs a contractor's eyes on the screen and the pump setting; a filter buys time while that conversation happens.
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