Why Gloversville Homeowners Choose Culligan For Well Water Treatment
Our systems are second to none. The real advantage is that we make treating well water simple.
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We Treat Your Water, Not A Category
Fulton County has the widest spread of well water we see anywhere in our territory, because the Adirondack boundary runs right through it a few miles north of Gloversville. South of that line, wells draw from shale and limestone and come back hard. North of it, in Bleecker and Caroga and Stratford, wells draw from ancient granite and gneiss and come back soft, low in minerals, and hard on copper plumbing. Same county, opposite problems, opposite systems. We start with a test and build the treatment around your actual numbers, which is why we won’t quote a system over the phone.
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The Company That Drilled It Can Treat It
Most homeowners end up with a driller, a plumber, and a separate water treatment company, and when something goes wrong each one points at the others. We drill, pump, test, and treat. One number, one company, one answer.
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Expert Installation, And We Maintain It
Culligan has been in water treatment for more than 85 years and it’s all we do. Your local Culligan delivers, installs, and maintains the system for you, so there’s no shipping damage, no unboxing, no guessing about install location, and no third-party service line when it needs attention. Schedule an appointment, then enjoy the water.
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Make Your Water Work For You
On the fence about whether you need treatment? These are the returns that pay a system off over time.
- 24% in energy savings by using softened cool water to wash clothes
- 30% more life out of water-using appliances when contaminants are filtered out
- 50% reduction in detergent costs for laundry, hair, and body in soft water
- No more replacing fixtures and appliances that iron ruined early
Local Resources
Gloversville Well Water
Why Does My Well Water Stain
Everything Orange?
That’s iron, and in Fulton County it is the single most common well complaint we get. It shows up in both halves of the county. In the crystalline rock north of Gloversville iron often arrives as a fine colloid that tints the water yellow-brown before it ever stains anything, and in the shale belt under the city it arrives dissolved and stains on contact with air. USGS sampled a bedrock well in the Town of Stratford that came back at nearly six times the iron standard. A softener alone won’t handle that. An iron filter will.
Why Does My Hot Water Smell
Like Rotten Eggs?
Hydrogen sulfide gas. It is normally associated with black shale, but it turns up in the crystalline rock north of here too, where graphitic schist supplies the organic carbon that sulfate-reducing bacteria need. The USGS well in Stratford had it. It is worse in hot water because heat drives the gas out of solution, and it will follow you to every faucet in the house. Sulfur filtration removes it.
How Hard Is Well Water Around Gloversville?
It depends entirely on which side of the Adirondack line your well is, and this is the one place in our territory where guessing will genuinely cost you money. USGS sampled two wells in Fulton County that tell the whole story: one in Adirondack granite in the Town of Stratford came back at 23 mg/L, about 1.3 grains per gallon, which is soft. One in limestone in the Town of Johnstown came back at 225 mg/L, about 13 grains, which is very hard. Gloversville itself sits south of the boundary on glacial cover over shale, so wells in and immediately around the city usually behave like the Johnstown well. The city’s own water is soft, because it comes from six reservoirs in the hills north of town, but that tells you nothing about your well. Hardness cannot be guessed here. You have to test for it.
TREATMENT OPTIONS
Three Problems, Three Fixes For Your
Fulton County Well
Iron & Sulfur Filtration
Water Softening
Drinking Water Systems
The Proof
Why Do Gloversville Homeowners TRUST Our
Well Water Treatment Systems?
My hair has never been softer, and I've noticed my skin is healthier. Thank you Culligan!
Working with Culligan has been nothing short of excellent. Very trusted, reliable, and they know what they are talking about when it comes to water treatment.
Our tap water has never tasted better. We feel better about drinking directly from the tap thanks to our under-sink reverse osmosis system!
Rust Stains? Yellow Water?
Find Out What's Really
In Gloversville Well Water!
• Fast on-site results, no mailing
• We test hardness, alkalinity, iron, sulfur, and pH
• Flexible sample pickup options
Frequently Asked Well Water Treatment Questions
We Have Answers
Will a water softener remove the iron from my well water?
A softener removes hardness and carries a limited amount of iron with it. In Fulton County iron is very often the main event rather than a side issue, and a lot of the iron in the crystalline-rock wells north of town is colloidal, which a softener won't touch at all. A dedicated iron filter is the right tool. A test tells us which situation you're in.
My water is already soft. Do I still need anything?
Quite possibly, just not a softener. The soft wells north of Gloversville are soft because the granite and gneiss up there give up almost nothing. That also means almost no alkalinity, which is what buffers water and keeps it from being aggressive toward copper pipe and lead solder. The USGS well in Stratford measured alkalinity of 12 mg/L, which is essentially none. That water wants neutralizing and filtering, not softening.
Will my water taste salty?
No. A properly functioning water softener will never make your water taste salty. The small amount of sodium added is far too little to create a salty taste.
How does a water softener work?
Through ion exchange. As it removes the calcium and magnesium that make water hard, it replaces those ions one for one with sodium. The amount added is proportional to how hard your water is, and in most cases it isn't a significant contributor to the sodium in your diet.
Will a softener reverse damage already done to my appliances?
Yes. Once a softener is installed it begins removing the scale that hard water built up. It takes a long time to clear, but it will clear.
Are chemicals added to my water to soften it?
Other than salt or potassium chloride, no. A softener actually reduces the cleaning supplies and detergents going down your drain, which makes it a net positive environmentally.
How often do I need to add salt?
Modern softeners recharge based on how much water you use and how hard it is. Most of our customers add salt once or twice a year.
Is it true the water up in Bleecker and Caroga is acidic?
Not in the way people usually mean. The crystalline-rock wells USGS sampled in Fulton County measured pH 7.2 and 7.3, which is neutral. The problem isn't acidity, it's that the water has almost no buffering capacity, so small changes push it around and it behaves aggressively toward plumbing. That's why the City of Gloversville doses soda ash and a corrosion inhibitor into its own reservoir water. Same idea applies on a well, and the fix is a neutralizing filter rather than a pH adjustment chemical.
Is my well water safe to drink without treatment?
Iron, sulfur, and hardness are mostly aesthetic and nuisance problems at the levels we usually find. Radon in water is worth knowing about on a bedrock well here, and bacteria and nitrate are a separate test that New York recommends annually on any private well. Start with a water test and we'll tell you honestly which category your results fall into.
How long does installation take?
Most residential systems install in a few hours in a single visit. We deliver the equipment, install it, and set it up, so there's nothing for you to unbox or assemble.
We're building a house. When should treatment be designed in?
As soon as the well is drilled and tested. Roughing in space and plumbing for treatment during construction costs far less than retrofitting it into a finished home.
Where should I get started?
Every recommendation we make starts with knowing what is in your water. The test is free, it happens at your house, and it takes about half an hour. You'll get your numbers explained in plain language and an honest answer about whether you need treatment at all.
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