Why Frankfort 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
Frankfort sits on Utica Shale, with the Frankfort Formation named for the gulf just south of the village, and on top of that a thick sheet of glacial sand and gravel that USGS has mapped in detail. A shallow well in that valley fill and a drilled well into the shale below it are two different waters with two different problem lists. 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
Frankfort Well Water
Why Does My Well Water Stain
Everything Orange?
That’s iron. Utica Shale is black, organic-rich, and full of pyrite, and the oxygen-poor conditions inside fractured shale keep iron dissolved and mobile right up until it reaches air at your tap. USGS found iron above the staining standard in half the wells it sampled across the Mohawk basin. A softener alone won’t handle meaningful iron. An iron filter will.
Why Does My Hot Water Smell
Like Rotten Eggs?
Hydrogen sulfide gas, and Frankfort sits on exactly the rock that produces it. Black shale supplies both the sulfur and the organic carbon that sulfate-reducing bacteria need, and USGS found the odor in seven of fourteen bedrock wells sampled across this basin against one of eight shallow wells. If you have a drilled well here, it is close to a coin flip. Sulfur filtration removes it.
How Hard Is Well Water Around Frankfort?
Hard, and the village figures won’t tell you your number. Frankfort’s public supply is three municipal wells on Industrial Drive, treated before distribution, plus a purchased-water connection with Ilion. Your well is untreated and probably finished somewhere different. USGS describes groundwater in this basin as generally hard to very hard, median around 230 mg/L as calcium carbonate, roughly 13 grains per gallon, running as high as 510 mg/L in individual wells. Counterintuitively, the shallow valley-fill wells here often test harder than the shale wells, because the glacial gravel is made of ground-up carbonate rock. Hardness is what scales your heater, and the only way to know your figure is to test for it.
TREATMENT OPTIONS
Three Problems, Three Fixes For Your
Frankfort Well
Iron & Sulfur Filtration
Water Softening
Drinking Water Systems
The Proof
Why Do Frankfort 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? Rotten Egg Smell?
Find Out What's Really
In Frankfort Well Water!
• Fast on-site results, no mailing
• We test iron, manganese, sulfur, hardness, 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 will carry a limited amount of iron and manganese with it. On a shale well around Frankfort iron is often the main event rather than a side issue, and that calls for a dedicated iron filter. A test tells us which situation you're in.
Do I need a softener, a filter, or both?
Most well homes around Frankfort end up with both, because hardness and iron are separate problems with separate solutions. Whole home filtration paired with softening is the complete answer for a typical well here.
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.
My well is shallow and in the valley. Should I test for anything extra?
Yes. USGS mapped the sand-and-gravel aquifer under Frankfort, Ilion, Mohawk and Herkimer in detail and flagged it as highly susceptible to surface contamination, because it is permeable and the water table is shallow. This is also a valley with a long industrial history. That combination makes a one-time screen for volatile organic compounds worth doing on a shallow valley well, on top of the usual bacteria and nitrate test. It is not a reason to assume there's a problem, just a reason to look.
Is my well water safe to drink without treatment?
Iron, manganese, sulfur, and hardness are mostly aesthetic and nuisance problems at the levels we usually find. Bacteria, nitrate, arsenic, and radon in water are separate tests. 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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