My city water used to be decent til they started dicking with it. they built a plant to season the water or some stuff after the filtration. It bubbles now and has to sit for 20 minutes to be clear. A new shower head lasts a month. I suspect the new additives are causing the scale to break free from old pipes. We are all limestone here so our water is hard anyway.
Theres a town to the north that has the flammable water, thats pretty cool. If you dont filter their water almost to the point of distilling it and you make beer out of it it turns green and the bottles get too pressurized an explode. Kidney tansplant recipients are high in that area On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 4:18 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know, but they're listed separately on the test result. Allegedly > my hardness is within the EPA limit, but my turbidity is over it. > > > On 5/27/2021 5:06 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: > > Isn’t hardness and turgidity the same thing... > > *From:* Adam Moffett > *Sent:* Thursday, May 27, 2021 3:03 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Water conditioning systems > > > 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 > . 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]> wrote: > >> 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? >> >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > > > -- > - Forrest > > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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