[cmachado0613]

All my taps are running light brown. I have well water. I ran the cold water for 15 minutes and that helped a little. What should I do?

[speedball1]

Light brown! This could be rust built up in old galvanized pipe or soil from a water table that has fallen. There's a difference.. Soil has a small gritty feeling w2hile rust tends to flake. How old is your system and what type of pipes do you have? Back to you, Tom

[ma0641]

Could be iron from the soil, but it would take a lot to color and would have a metallic taste. Fairly common in some areas but it should have shown up before.

[mygirlsdad77]

Hi cm. Do you have a whole house water filter? If so, change it and see if the brown goes away. If no filter, it may be time to add one. Also, you can pour a gallon of bleach down the well, let it set overnight, then in the morning run water at an outside spigot for at least a couple of hours to flush the bleach. Let it run until you can no longer smell, or taste the bleach.

Let me know how things work out.