Our are the tubular pleated throw away kind. We get them at Menards. Link here.
All we get in it is black particulates. Cange it once a month it could probably go longer. We do have a little bit of iron but the water softener takes that out.
Yes, we have used those (pleated cellulose filters). They filter pretty well, but load up rather quickly with those “fibrous” particles and “mud”, after heavy rains. Then, if one doesn’t stay on them (the filter), so to speak, the water pressure will tear the cellulose material. That’s why I was thinking some sort of polypropylene cloth, IF that’s what’s used in the filters I found online, might be useful, esp. if it really is “washable”. (I’m also going on the theory that our slightly acidic water may, given weeks, break down the bonds between the fibers in the cellulose material. Whatever the cause, the material seems “weak” when I pull out a used cellulose filter.)
As I have learned, shallow wells in areas of heavy clay soils can be “problematic”. My guess is that our well taps the very top of an eons old sandbar or gravel deposit from the Ohio River, but not deeply enough, so, heavy rains wash muddy water down there before it can get well (pun not intended!) filtered. When I had the basement built below my shop, muddy water would leak (more like “run”) into the “hole” in the ground from its sides, about 5-10 ft. down, and well up from where the floor eventually went. In fact, out in our garden, the water table is presently about 1 foot down. (The sump pump in the basement still runs a lot, and the heavy rains are several days past.)
At least we are a few miles away from the river and any reach of the projected flooding.