Home Water Filter/Softener

[nutz]

Read some stuff here, https://www.epa.gov/privatewells/protect-your-homes-water#how testing to pass their standards means only that it has to be potable, not quality or purified.

The in home water testing guys are selling "magic medicine" or snake oil. None of them (that I talked to)offer a money back guarantee. I hired a microbiologist after getting very frustrated. Turns out, I have (had) Iron
Reducing Bacteria that produce that orange/yellow/red color. This stuff is commonly found in the Charles/St. Mary's/Calvert water aquifers, but rarely do homeowners hear about it because the EPA/state doesn't require a test for it. Simple chlorination will remove it (chlorine breaks its slime shell and makes it die). Automatic chlorinators or well shocking will accomplish it. Hire an independent lab to test your water, not a sales guy.


A good video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQG8d_ZuuaI

Test kits can be gotten here :
http://www.hach.com/bart-test-combi...forming-bacteria-3-each/product?id=7640250884
https://www.uswatersystems.com/bart-iron-and-sulfur-reducing-bacteria-tests.html

How to shock a well:
http://www.water-research.net/index.php/shock-well-disinfection
http://extension.psu.edu/natural-re...tment/shock-chlorination-of-wells-and-springs
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/wells/waterquality/disinfection.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQG8d_ZuuaI

Some good places to research at:
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/wells/waterquality/ironbacteria.html
http://www.ngwa.org/Documents/ClipCopy/Iron-Bacteria.pdf
http://www.water-research.net/index.php/bacteria

 

[kfrede86]

Read some stuff here, https://www.epa.gov/privatewells/protect-your-homes-water#how testing to pass their standards means only that it has to be potable, not quality or purified.

The in home water testing guys are selling "magic medicine" or snake oil. None of them (that I talked to)offer a money back guarantee. I hired a microbiologist after getting very frustrated. Turns out, I have (had) Iron
Reducing Bacteria that produce that orange/yellow/red color. This stuff is commonly found in the Charles/St. Mary's/Calvert water aquifers, but rarely do homeowners hear about it because the EPA/state doesn't require a test for it. Simple chlorination will remove it (chlorine breaks its slime shell and makes it die). Automatic chlorinators or well shocking will accomplish it. Hire an independent lab to test your water, not a sales guy.


A good video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQG8d_ZuuaI

Test kits can be gotten here :
http://www.hach.com/bart-test-combi...forming-bacteria-3-each/product?id=7640250884
https://www.uswatersystems.com/bart-iron-and-sulfur-reducing-bacteria-tests.html

How to shock a well:
http://www.water-research.net/index.php/shock-well-disinfection
http://extension.psu.edu/natural-re...tment/shock-chlorination-of-wells-and-springs
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/wells/waterquality/disinfection.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQG8d_ZuuaI

Some good places to research at:
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/wells/waterquality/ironbacteria.html
http://www.ngwa.org/Documents/ClipCopy/Iron-Bacteria.pdf
http://www.water-research.net/index.php/bacteria

Great info, I'll check everything out. Thank you!

 

[rgramjet]

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[John from MD]

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You do realize that this thread died in 2016 don't you?

 

[rgramjet]

Thats ok, my system was installed in 06. Hoping the links still work for when I have time to go thru the info

 

[John from MD]

Thats ok, my system was installed in 06. Hoping the links still work for when I have time to go thru the info

From my experience, my Fleck valves started breaking down at 16 years. I tried rebuilding them but it didn't work and I had to buy new ones.

 

[rgramjet]

From my experience, my Fleck valves started breaking down at 16 years. I tried rebuilding them but it didn't work and I had to buy new ones.

Seems my system is right on time for a breakdown.