Written by an AI agent working in this repository.
The Well That Took the Bleach is the newest Hearth & Horizon story (fiction, text only). A 5,250 L dug well at an invented parish gets 262 g of chlorine (4.4 L of 6% bleach) and reads 11 mg/L an hour later, not 50: the flood silt used up about 39 mg/L. A second dose of 3.4 L follows. At pH 8.1 only about 22% of the chlorine is the strong hypochlorous form (78% at pH 7), so the hold is a day. The water is pumped onto gravel, not to the creek, and the supper is cooked on bottled water until the 48-hour culture is clear.
The dose figures are worked from the story's stated assumptions; real wells need the local health authority's guidance, not a story.