Yeah it's been tested. Iron and Manganese levels are very high.
Hardness and turbidity also high. It's certainly safe to drink, but it
stains everything and taste like crap....even after softening.
Pelican includes a bleach injector on their Iron and Manganese filter.
After the bleach injector there's a Greensand filter and an activated
carbon filter. I found this interesting, but they're claiming the
chlorine oxidizes the metals in the water which makes them precipitate
out so filters can catch them easier. Their literature asserts that you
want the bleach injector unless your iron is already oxidized.
A cheaper brand is selling just the greensand and carbon filters without
the bleach injector.
On 5/27/2021 4:54 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
Generally well water should be safe, but not necessarily pleasant, to
drink without any sterilization or purification. Why they need
chlorine in city systems is that often the water is coming from a
semi-questionable source, for instance out of a lake or a river.
For drinking water we have one of the ispring branded filter systems.
For example:
https://www.amazon.com/iSpring-RCC7AK-Capacity-Drinking-Remineralization/dp/B005LJ8EXU
<https://www.amazon.com/iSpring-RCC7AK-Capacity-Drinking-Remineralization/dp/B005LJ8EXU>
. I also bought like the 2-3 year filtration kit at the same time.
We have it under the kitchen sink and it is also plumbed to the ice
maker in the fridge so the ice is filtered as well. If it failed,
I'd buy another one without any hesitation.
They have different number of stages systems, and if I remember
correctly some of the smaller stage systems have different options for
the stages depending on the water conditions you're trying to resolve.
I would recommend getting the water tested, first, if you haven't
already done so. Generally you will take a sample before any
filtration and send it off to a lab which will tell you what is in the
water. It will also let you know if anything bad is in the water...
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 12:18 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]
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Moving to a house with well water. It's actually my parents old
house
where I grew up so I'm very familiar with the water there. Currently
spoiled by nice, clean municipal water. That house has very high
iron
and manganese levels. Definitely also have hydrogen sulfide
because you
can smell and taste it.
There's already a salt water softener and that helps quite a bit, but
I'm looking at other some of these filter systems to put inline as
well. Wondering if this crowd has opinions or preferred brands
for that
stuff. All 2c opinions are welcome.
I'm also not sure about UV sterilization vs a chlorine injector
system.
Seems like the UV is less maintenance because all you do is change
the
bulb once a year, but IDK it's my first time looking at this
stuff. Any
opinions on that?
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