Irregular heartbeats from drinking well water?
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Iron/Sulfur Removal from well water
Comments (6)I like Pyrolox as an iron treatment method. However, it has one major drawback. One cubic foot allows only 5 gpm service flow, while at the same time requiring 25-30 gpm backwash flow rate. You don't have that flow rate. Greensand works well for iron and manganese, as well as hydrogen sulfide. I needs to be regenerated with potassium permanganate, a powerful oxidizer and nothing you likely want to mess with. It's a mess and a hazard. If you are comfortable working with chemicals, it remains a viable option. Manganese dioxide: Does a nice job on all three contaminants, but requires high levels of dissolved oxygen in order to work - air injection would be required. Birm will remove iron/manganese but not hydrogen sulfide to it will not take care of your problem. Redox is too heavy for you to backwash adequately. Terminox, similar to Pyrolox, will likely also required more backwash than you can provide. It is proprietary - you would have to ask the company for details about backwash requirements. If it will work with the flow you have, it would be the most convenient solution, requiring very little attention from you once it is operational. Rotten egg smell - This is most likely coming from your high sulfur content and will be eliminated with treatment. Something else to consider: You have very high hardness as well and would benefit from a softener. While, technically, a properly sized softener could remove the iron and manganese, your iron levels are high enough that the system would tend to be problematic and you would still be left with the sulfur compounds. If I were you, my first choice would be Terminox (provided your flowrate can backwash it) to remove iron, manganese, hydrogen sulfide, follwed by a softener to remove hardness. Second choice would be synthetic greensand. It is lighter than natural greensand and you wouldn't have a problem with backwash. Also followed by a softener....See MoreQuestions from a well water newbie
Comments (9)We have well water about 14 grains of hardness. Our plumber tested it for us as it had pretty much destroyed the plumbing fixtures in the house with white deposits coming out everywhere. So we installed a whole house softener, which has worked very well. It requires the addition of a bag of softener salt per month for us. Additionally, the well pump has a white filter which needs to be changed about every other month. That collected so much stuff I didn't trust the drinking water to be clean enough and got sick of plastic bottle recycling and paying for bottled water. So i also installed an Ews under sink water filter. Not cheap but it gives excellent results. I'm no expert but that's all we needed to do. The filter faucet can go on the kitchen sink though I have it in the mudroom, where I just removed a soap dispenser....See MoreDo I really need a drinking water filter?
Comments (13)Our well has visible sediment and the water is dingy, unfiltered. So I have two large filter canisters in series, 1" piping. The first has a 50 micron element and the second has a 5 micron element. My idea, whether it is correct or not, is that the first filter will catch some of the sediment and thus prolong the life of the second element, increasing the time between filter changes. The cartridge manufacturers specify a replacement schedule-- but they have a vested interest in selling lots of cartridges! The first filter also supplies the outside faucets so that the coarser sediment does not clog nozzles and sprinklers. Water for the clothes washer and for other in-house uses also goes through the 5 micron filter. So I replace mine when the drop in pressure becomes too great. And that has proved to be about every 10-12 months. I see no reason to change that plan....See MoreLead Levels in Drinking Water
Comments (4)greasetrap- I empathize. Kids are more vulnerable to lead than adults are. As someone who spent most of his work career in environmental regulation, including lead in drinking water, I can be a titch paranoid, too. However, I don't think you need to replace all your old pipes immediately. You know your water lead levels are low and, even if you replaced all the pipes, there could still be measurable lead from the well water itself, so you might not be able to get it to zero even if you replaced all the plumbing. In addition, be aware that brass faucets, until quite recently, had lead in them, too When I had three daughters at home, I knew that my home had some copper piping with lead-containing solder, and I just made sure we ran the water from the tap if it had been sitting a while. I did progressively replace old pipes as I remodeled over the years, but I didn't obsess about removing them all at once. If you are still concerned, just make sure water for drinking or cooking is drawn after the tap has run a bit. And, even if the lead content was higher than yours tests, you still wouldn't need to worry about using this water for showering or bathing or washing hands or dishes. I took a look at what my local water district had to say about lead in the public water supply -- I know they pro-active about contaminants -- and their annual water quality report said that, if you have a house with older copper plumbing: "you may want to flush out any water that has been sitting for six hours or longer, prior to using for cooking or drinking. You can run the water for approximately 30 seconds in order to flush out the plumbing lines." In my prior life as a regulator, we found that children with elevated lead levels in their blood, particularly those under 6, often had most risk of exposure through other kinds of oral intake than water. Young kids have their fingers in their mouths a lot and also chew on things they shouldn't. They get the lead from old, lead-containing and deteriorating paint in their homes, either from lead dust getting on their hands or from eating paint chips or chewing/teething on window sills, and from playing in paint-contaminated dirt in the yard and then getting it in their mouths via their dirty hands. Other sources of elevated lead levels were from some traditional folk medicines that are popular among certain cultures, and from eating from lead-containing dishes (often the highly colored ones where the bright glazes had high lead content). If your home is well-maintained, you flush the plumbing as needed, and there aren't other risk factors, you shouldn't need to worry about your daughter having a lead problem....See Morelydia1959
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