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How to interpret water tests results?

thisishishouse
9 years ago

Got our water test results back recently. First time in our life on well water [and septic. Sheesh, like the stone age out here. ;) ], so we got a lot of learnin' to do.

Anybody have any experience with interpreting the test results?

Most everything has an "OK" check mark next to it.

1. One thing that reads over the limit is Arsenic. The EPA limit says 0.01mg/L. My reading is 0.0111 mg/L. Do I really need to worry about being 1 one-thousandths over the limit? Is this something that a Brita filter or something easy could address?

2. Hardness. The hardness test says 92.8 mg/L, but doesn't give any guidelines on limits, or what's considered hard or soft. If it is hard, is there any real danger with waiting a year or so to address it? Our money tree has dried up for the year.

3. Some line items have a test result, but no guidelines for safe limits. Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium. Any special concern on those?

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