Well water treatment · Pinellas & select surrounding counties
Every recommendation starts with the water at your home. Aqua Pro serves well-water homes throughout Pinellas County and takes on select surrounding-county projects when the scope and travel make sense. The owner tests, designs, and installs the system — no handoff from a sales rep to a subcontractor.
01 · Stain
Orange rings in the toilets. Orange streaks in the tub. White laundry coming out dingy no matter how much bleach you throw at it. That’s iron. Well water around here is loaded with dissolved iron — you can’t always see it coming out of the tap, but you’ll see it on everything it touches. The good news: iron is one of the easiest problems to fix when the system is sized right.
02 · Odor
Before you spend a dime, here’s a trick worth knowing: if the smell only shows up in the hot water, it’s probably not your well at all — it’s your water heater. The anode rod in the tank reacts with bacteria and makes hydrogen sulfide. Smell in both hot and cold? That’s your well, and that’s mine to fix.
03 · Tint
Yellow or brown tint, usually worse after a big rain. Here’s my honest take: a tannin filter is overkill on about 9 out of 10 well systems I see. The exception is a shallow well near a lake — then it’s cheap insurance after a storm. If someone tries to sell you a tannin system on day one, get a second opinion.
04 · Safety
This is the one people sleep on. After Hurricane Ian, 22% of private wells tested in Seminole County came back positive for coliform or E. coli. Floodwater gets in, and suddenly the water’s not safe to drink. The state health department tells well owners to test every year for bacteria and nitrates — most people never test it once. The free test I do at your tap screens the water; when bacteria is the question, I take a sample to a certified lab and walk you through the results. If it’s positive, I chlorinate the well and retest until it’s clean.
A conventional well-water setup can mean a long row of equipment and a long maintenance list. That’s a lot to own, a lot to service, and a lot to squeeze beside the house.
My systems use a proprietary Aqua Pro treatment process designed to handle the iron and sulfur the test actually finds. The homeowner gets about half the equipment of many conventional well setups, a smaller footprint, and less to maintain. I keep the process private. I make the result and the price easy to understand.
Default treatment targets iron and sulfur — the two problems behind most Tampa Bay well complaints. The exception is phosphate-mining country: in parts of Polk County the water chemistry is different, and the system design changes with it. The test tells us which version your water needs.
I publish my starting prices instead of making you book a sales visit to hear one. Big dealers commonly charge $3,500 to $6,500 for their version of a whole-house well setup — see how my iron-and-sulfur combo starts, and what moves any job up or down, on my What It Costs page. The free test at your tap tells me exactly which version of the system your water needs — one straight price, no kitchen-table sales pitch.
Every photo here is a job I actually did. No stock, no models, no fake smiles.
These are owner-installed Aqua Pro systems in Tampa Bay homes. No stock photography is used anywhere on this site.
Quick heads-up most people don’t know: Florida doesn’t require a well-water test when a house sells. But if your buyer has an FHA, VA, or USDA loan, the lender requires one — no passing test, no closing. I do free pre-listing screenings at the tap so there’s no surprise a week before closing. And if the official test comes back bad, I fix it — chlorination and retest for bacteria, real treatment for iron and sulfur — and handle the certified lab test for the lender. One call, the water side’s handled. Call (727) 342-0091.
The free field test covers hardness, iron, sulfur, chlorine, pH, and TDS — the conditions behind most equipment decisions. When the question needs a certified laboratory — bacteria, nitrates, or PFAS — that’s a paid Aqua Pro service: I take the sample, send it to the certified lab, and walk you through the report line by line.
Nobody tests it but you. City water gets tested by the utility on a schedule; the EPA’s rules don’t cover private wells at all. That’s why the state health department tells well owners to test every year — for bacteria and nitrates at minimum. The free test I do at your tap takes 20 minutes and shows you the hardness, iron, and sulfur levels behind most well-water complaints — and I’ll tell you straight when something needs a certified lab test instead.
It depends on what your water needs — iron only, iron plus sulfur, or the full setup with softening. I publish my starting prices, and what moves them up or down, on my What It Costs page; the big dealers charge $3,500 to $6,500 for their version. The free test at your tap tells me exactly which version of the system your water needs — one straight price, no kitchen-table sales pitch.
Probably not. A tannin filter is overkill on about 9 out of 10 well systems I see. The exception: a shallow well near a lake, or tea-colored water that gets worse after rain — then it’s cheap insurance. I’ll tell you straight at the test.
Sulfur — hydrogen sulfide gas. Quick check: smell only in the hot water, and it’s your water heater’s anode rod reacting. Smell in hot and cold, and it’s your well. Either way, the free 20-minute test sorts out which one it is.
The equipment runs 10 to 15-plus years with normal maintenance. My setups carry about half the equipment of a conventional well system, which means fewer parts to fail and fewer service calls. For hardness, see my water softeners page.
Yes. Floodwater is the number-one way bacteria gets into a well — after Hurricane Ian, 22% of wells tested in Seminole County came back positive. Test after any flooding, and don’t drink it until the test is clean. I do the screening free and run the certified lab test when it’s needed.
About 20 minutes at your tap. You keep the results whether you buy from me or not.
Pinellas County, FL