'Silt' in toilet bowl tank?

[th3w01f]

We're replacing three old toilets at our house and each of them has about 1/4 of what looks like silt in the tank. It's dark brown in color and gritty but not exactly like sand, doesn't have any smell.

The inside of the tank is also died green (no obvious color in the bowl, these should only be 8 years old.

We're on the Upper Dawson aquifer, any ideas what this might be? We had the water tested for contaminates when we moved in and it was fine. Checking with a TDS meter (left over when when we used to have a salt water tank) shows about 140.

[Great-Kazoo]

Residual from the tank, the green is probably from the copper for the ballcock and stand, also the brass hardware used to secure tank to bowel.

[th3w01f]

All the interior parts are plastic and I could grab a whole hand full of this stuff from the bottom.

[crashdown]

Do you have a whole house filter?
If not, I would install one and see what happens.
A lot of them are clear so you can see the filter. My guess is you will start seeing discoloration of the filter pretty quick, and you won't see any more sediment in the tank. All well water has some sediment unless filtered out.
Whole house sediment systems are really cheap, just don't be an idiot like I was and put in a carbon filter.... it's used to remove chlorine.
Even with a filtration system, my water would turn the color of light ice tea during heavy rains or snow melt.

[Lurch]

It is green clay and shale. I'm in the lower Dawson and watched them drill my well and there was a lot of green clay. Even found some coal.

[rondog]

You should see the spooge that comes out when I flush out our water heater..... You should probably flush yours too, add a few years to its life.

[th3w01f]

We're on a boiler so I don't know what needs to be done with the water holding tanks. Any advice would be apprecaited.

There is a whole house filter but I have no idea when it was last changed or how it was maintained. It's a 10 year old kenmore and I can't find the wrench. Rather than buy a new wrench for $40 I think I get a new system.

[th3w01f]

A new whole house filter will be going in shortly but I'd like to bitch again about the previous owner and his lack of basic maintenance (even though he appears to have designed the most bullet proof septic system ever, 2 septic companies and Douglas county have marveled at the leach field).

Just had a plumber here working his butt off for 12 hours. It was just supposed to be replacing 3 toilets but we ran into issues with each one and a few other leaks, including one toilet that looks like it has been leaking for years and will probably require remodeling a small bathroom (floorboard is rotted to the point where the flange is moving so we can't the the toilet solid).

Anyone want to remodel a powder room from the ground up? Serious, looking for bids. ;-)

[crays]

Shoot Bmac a pm. That's right in his wheelhouse.

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