Why Little Falls 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
Little Falls sits in one of the more unusual pieces of geology in New York. The Mohawk gorge here cuts clean through the whole sedimentary section and exposes Adirondack basement rock close to a billion years old, with the Little Falls Dolostone resting directly on top of it. A well finished in that dolostone, a well finished in the crystalline rock beneath it, and a well finished in the valley gravel all give up different water. 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
Little Falls Well Water
Why Does My Well Water Stain
Everything Orange?
That’s iron, and the rock here supplies plenty of it. The Little Falls Dolostone carries pyrite, marcasite, and limonite alongside its famous quartz crystals, and in the oxygen-poor conditions inside fractured rock those minerals put dissolved iron into your water. It oxidizes on contact with air, which is why the stain lands in your tub and laundry rather than in the glass. A softener alone won’t handle meaningful iron. An iron filter will.
Why Does My Hot Water Smell
Like Rotten Eggs?
Hydrogen sulfide gas. The same sulfide minerals that put iron in your water feed sulfate-reducing bacteria, which produce the rotten egg smell in oxygen-free groundwater. It is worse in hot water because heat drives the gas out of solution. USGS found the odor in half the bedrock wells it sampled across the Mohawk basin. It is a nuisance rather than a health hazard at the levels we normally see, but it doesn’t clear up on its own. Sulfur filtration removes it.
How Hard Is Well Water Around Little Falls?
Usually hard, and often magnesium-heavy, but the answer swings depending on what your well is finished in. The Little Falls Dolostone is a calcium-magnesium carbonate, so a well drawing from it picks up hardness from both minerals. A well into the Precambrian gneiss below it can come back genuinely soft. The city’s own supply is no guide either way, since it comes from three impoundments and the King Springs, treated before distribution. USGS describes groundwater across this basin as generally hard to very hard, with a median near 230 mg/L as calcium carbonate, about 13 grains per gallon. Hardness is what scales your heater and films your shower door, and the only way to know your figure is to test for it.
TREATMENT OPTIONS
Three Problems, Three Fixes For Your
Little Falls Well
Iron & Sulfur Filtration
Water Softening
Drinking Water Systems
The Proof
Why Do Little Falls 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 Little Falls 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 along the way. Given how much pyrite and marcasite the dolostone around Little Falls contains, iron is often the main event here, 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 Little Falls 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.
Two neighbors on the same road have completely different water. How?
Because of where the gorge is. Little Falls is one of the few places in the state where the entire sedimentary section thins out against ancient Adirondack basement rock, so the drilled depth at which you leave dolostone and enter crystalline rock changes over short distances. A well in the dolostone comes back hard, iron-bearing and often sulfurous. A well into the gneiss can come back soft and low in minerals. It genuinely is a property-by-property question here, which is why we test rather than quote.
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 worth doing on any private well in this part of New York. 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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