The kitchen water faucet strainer/ screen was carefully removed like a skilled surgeon attending to 
every small detail.
A match was lit, rotated around the exposed rim of the faucet.
Be careful, some are really mobile home plastic and can melt if you whip out a blow torch to over do the sterilization process. Air getting to bacteria...there's where your problems start.
Like a cancer patient that everyone always says, once they open them up, everything accelerates like wild fire progression of the cancer disease.
The place has been occupied. Lots of laundry being done. Teenage showers that are the extended version happen here a lot. Maybe coin operated showers like car washes should be installed in showers with kids. Giving them a certain number of weekly "tokens" is the key to water conservation. Anyway, lots of water going thru the system is the point here and nothing stagnant laying in the pipes. You let it run thru the pump cycle in the case of a rural private water well. The sample taken, zipped in quickly to a Maine water testing labratory. And the wait for results. Mr. mailman a few days later brings you an evelope or you have the lap fax the results. And eyeballs scan the paperwork, you see a coloform bacteria count of one, two or the worse that can happen, TNTC. (Too numberous to count). Only had two of those in 30 years of peddling Maine real estate.
Now what? For starters in the case of a one or two designation, that is not the end of the world. Shock the system per instructions that come with the paperwork giving your the failing grade from the water testing lab.
Don't put in a 55 gallon drum of bleach thinking if a pint is good, how about really over achieving in the bleach department. The test not two days later but three weeks later will still reek of bleach and you will think you are living inside a laundromat.
Hey, how come your hair is that color?
If the rest of the water tests still have a problem, part of the cause may be the stem of the well is not above the ground with a secure clamp or barrier underneath. The wood covering or whatever is being used to protect the well head has worn out and ground water is getting in to contaminate the water source.
Put a pvc extension on the well head steel casing that was cut off to avoid northern Maine snow plows from backing into it, and retest for just the bacteria..not the whole shooting match of analysis. Save some money because your nitrites, ph, iron, and all the rest are all in the safe ranges right? If the retest still shows anything more than a big fat "0" for bacteria coloform, consider buying an ultra violet (UV) light that water passes thru and comes out squeaky clean all the time. Many folks with a small number of bacteria that the retests show is all fine and dandy after the extra precautions are taken with shocking the system, still are wary of the water. And always will be. So the UV application takes care of that. I think for under $700 was the number I remember for the last unit a local plumber installed to take care of the problem.
A chlorinator that is adjustable and makes you nice clean country water taste a little like intown muncipal grade is another option. A drip drip drop is what is added to take care of any bacteria that drifts in or out. The smart route to go is to figure out why the bad test, fix the problems in the trouble shooting one by one and not have to have the quick fix chlorinator or uv lighting option. But with pending Maine real estate closings, and anxious buyers, sellers, bankers and yes, even brokers who buy their groceries from the closing sale happening on time and at all, these remedies are out there to get to that long table in the bank or lawyer's office.
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