(The following post was written in a notebook but not actually posted on the blog until we received our referral because we didn’t tell our family that we were in process. We waited until we had the referral for our son before we published on the blog because we wanted to do this “covertly” and have it be a surprise to as many people as possible.)
The place where we ordered our UV Filter from said to do another shock chlorination to try to get rid of the rest of the coliforms SO, on Friday night, October 1, we took showers early and poured 2 more jugs of Clorox into the well. By Tuesday we probably could have tested again but since I only wanted to make one trip to the lab (hopefully only one more trip!) I waited until we received and installed the UV Filter.
We received the UV Filter on October 6 and Tony laid it all out so he knew what he had to do. The following night he installed it but when he turned the water back on, the main shut-off valve was leaking – a LOT! So, another trip to Home Depot to get a new shut-off valve and time installing it and he was finally done!
We were both tired of dealing with water!
I took a water sample before the UV Filter was installed (to see how much more good the 2nd shock chlorination did) and another the morning after. I was told the results would be emailed to me on Saturday even though they were “closed.” Well, I didn’t get the emails until Monday, the 11th. BOTH tests came back CLEAR! YIPPEE! That means the 2nd chlorination worked! And the UV Filter will keep it clean!
In the meantime, our social worker has called and set up our three appointments to do our home study! She will come to the house on October 13th, 19th and 28th. For some reason three visits are required. So the “water thing” delayed our home study for a month. This will leave 2 months to get our dossier to China this year – if that’s even still possible!
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