First, I'd like to thank everyone for all the info on this site. It's been very helpful over the years..
Hoping to get some help with a water treatment system. We don't drink the water but we brush our teeth with it and would like to be able to use it for cooking.
I built my home 20 years ago and have a shore well on Lake Ontario where I had to blast into limestone to get down about 12 feet below the lake level.
The water has an annoying smell that is kinda like sulfur but I tested it and it came up negative. It doesn't really smell like the lake so I think it's something from the bedrock. I was using a pellet chorinator on top of the well that seemed to help but I could never get that adjusted right and eventually the plastic got brittle and started breaking so I decided to yank it. I have about a 12" tank with 1 cu ft of activated carbon that's about 20 years old but I pretty much left it in bypass the whole time because I didn't want to ruin it with the excessive chlorine.
I got a deal on a lightly used Stenner pump, tank and 1ppg meter and was thinking of using it to inject h2o2 but I'm not convinced it is needed. I've read a little about adding so much h202 per ppm or iron and sulfur but my tests don't show any of either. So I was thinking I could just take a water sample, add h2o2 and compare the residual to what it should be with the same quantity of distilled water. The difference would be how much I have to inject plus maybe a residual. So I got a 17 gallon tub and filled it with unfiltered water plus 1 teaspoon of 7% h202. The smell went away and the residual tested at about 5%.
So my questions are:
We currently have a meter inline and our actual water usage over the past 3 months is 197 gals per day. Three toilets, 2 showers and a soaker tub that's used daily if that matters.
Anions
Bromide ND PPM
Chlorides 9.48 PPM
Fluoride 0.46 PPM
Nitrate - IC 0.77 PPM
Orthophosphate 0.50 PPM
Sulfate 24.9 PPM
Cations
Arsenic - ICP ND PPB
Barium 61.8 PPB
Beryllium ND PPB
Boron ND PPB
Cadmium ND PPB
Calcium 66.4 PPM
Chromium ND PPB
Cobalt ND PPB
Copper - ICP 29.1 PPB
Iron ND PPM 0.3
Lithium 39.2 PPB
Magnesium 16.7 PPM
Manganese ND PPB
Molybdenum ND PPB
Nickel ND PPB
Phosphorus, Total 12.8 PPB
Potassium 1.69 PPM
Silicon 4340 PPB
Silver ND PPB
Sodium 8.5 PPM
Strontium 2180 PPB
Vanadium ND PPB
Zinc 15.3 PPB
Other Tests
pH 7.6 pH
Total Dissolved Solids 257 PPM
Tannin/Lignins ND PPM
Calculated Values
Hardness 14 Grains
Silica SiO2 9 PPM
Hoping to get some help with a water treatment system. We don't drink the water but we brush our teeth with it and would like to be able to use it for cooking.
I built my home 20 years ago and have a shore well on Lake Ontario where I had to blast into limestone to get down about 12 feet below the lake level.
The water has an annoying smell that is kinda like sulfur but I tested it and it came up negative. It doesn't really smell like the lake so I think it's something from the bedrock. I was using a pellet chorinator on top of the well that seemed to help but I could never get that adjusted right and eventually the plastic got brittle and started breaking so I decided to yank it. I have about a 12" tank with 1 cu ft of activated carbon that's about 20 years old but I pretty much left it in bypass the whole time because I didn't want to ruin it with the excessive chlorine.
I got a deal on a lightly used Stenner pump, tank and 1ppg meter and was thinking of using it to inject h2o2 but I'm not convinced it is needed. I've read a little about adding so much h202 per ppm or iron and sulfur but my tests don't show any of either. So I was thinking I could just take a water sample, add h2o2 and compare the residual to what it should be with the same quantity of distilled water. The difference would be how much I have to inject plus maybe a residual. So I got a 17 gallon tub and filled it with unfiltered water plus 1 teaspoon of 7% h202. The smell went away and the residual tested at about 5%.
So my questions are:
- Does it make sense to calculate it like this?
- Do you think aeration or rounding errors would make this method too inaccurate?
- How do I calculate what the residual would be with distilled water? I think 17 gallons is 13056 teaspoons and my math shows 1 teaspoon of 7% h2o2 diluted with 8192 teaspoons of distilled water would be 8.5 ppm and 4.3 ppm for 16384 teaspoons.
- The Stenner pump is an ECON E20PHH71S7 which is 30 GPD max. Should I downsize the tube and/or rollers to a lower rate?
- Should I add a retention tank?
- I also want to add a 5810 xtr2 softener. Should I just use the meter on the softener instead of using the one that came with my Stenner?
- What size softener would you recommend? We only have 3 people living there now but I was thinking of over-sizing it a little since I have no iron.
- Does the xtr2 come with the software to program and monitor from my pc?
- Do you think I should replace the activated carbon if it's been sitting almost 20 years? Flow seems good and it seems to get rid of most of the odor by itself.
- Should I plumb it up with just the carbon filter and softener first and add the injection if it still smells? I generally like to do things right the first time but I can leave room for h2o2 equipment and it wouldn't be too much work redoing a little pex if needed.
We currently have a meter inline and our actual water usage over the past 3 months is 197 gals per day. Three toilets, 2 showers and a soaker tub that's used daily if that matters.
Anions
Bromide ND PPM
Chlorides 9.48 PPM
Fluoride 0.46 PPM
Nitrate - IC 0.77 PPM
Orthophosphate 0.50 PPM
Sulfate 24.9 PPM
Cations
Arsenic - ICP ND PPB
Barium 61.8 PPB
Beryllium ND PPB
Boron ND PPB
Cadmium ND PPB
Calcium 66.4 PPM
Chromium ND PPB
Cobalt ND PPB
Copper - ICP 29.1 PPB
Iron ND PPM 0.3
Lithium 39.2 PPB
Magnesium 16.7 PPM
Manganese ND PPB
Molybdenum ND PPB
Nickel ND PPB
Phosphorus, Total 12.8 PPB
Potassium 1.69 PPM
Silicon 4340 PPB
Silver ND PPB
Sodium 8.5 PPM
Strontium 2180 PPB
Vanadium ND PPB
Zinc 15.3 PPB
Other Tests
pH 7.6 pH
Total Dissolved Solids 257 PPM
Tannin/Lignins ND PPM
Calculated Values
Hardness 14 Grains
Silica SiO2 9 PPM