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Ok country folks and mountain punks i have a water contamination mystery. I’m just now starting to connect the dots and I have no idea what is going on. First rain of the season presumably washes a bunch of minerals into the well and refills it so the usual hard water becomes extreme hard water. I can’t get it filtered enough and spend three days vomiting anything made with water. This also happened last year. Annoying to have to buy drinking water but after a few weeks it clears up. Problem number two is a mysterious skin issue. This also happened last year and I thought it was scabies that i picked up from clothes I bought. It got really bad before I got the medicated cream for it because I really did not expect to catch scabies while living alone in the wilderness but i did manage to pass it to a friend who borrowed my car. This mystery skin issue that we all thought was scabies last year is back now right at the same time as the water became undrinkable. It’s possible it could be some kind of bacterial infection but I really suspect a parasite. The only thing is that when i drank the water the only symptom i had was vomiting, nausea, stomach cramping. I never had diarrhea, which you would expect from giardia or some other parasite. So what my mystery well contamination and how do I get rid of it?

Any ideas? I am not sure exactly where they are located, but I think it's in the hills somewhere around Hollister or Soledad.