Hi all - new to the site and new to water treatment. many thanks to all who post here.
Your information here is truelly helpful and informative.
Was hoping to get recommendations on new water treatment or modify existing setup.
Only the wife and I in a 3 bath house.
water analysis results from 3 weeks ago by lab at U of Ill. State Water Survey - attached(Raw, Treated).
Raw Water Key Points:
Iron 1.53 mg/L
Manganese 20.1 micro gr/L
Hardness 269 mg/L
pH 8.00
Turbidity 9.6 NTU
Color 7.1 PCU
I will apologize up front - may not be using correct terminology.Still getting up to speed.
I have a private well (300') that provides ~12gpm (per well doc's).
Grzzly 20G11 Submersible, on demand, no storage/pressure tank.
Current treatment system has been in Since 2008:
1 cu.ft. Iron Filter:
Filox/Metalease 9x48 Vortech Logix Performa Autotrol 263 set to backwash 14 min every 2 days at 9 gpm DLFC
1.5 cu.ft. Softener:
8% C100E 10x54 Vortech Logix Performa Autotrol 268 on demand set to 9lbs/cuft salt and 20 gpg
treat the softener with Resup/rescare regularly.
(I rebedded softener resin this last weekend, changed top basket, cleaned out tank & valve a bit(screens,ports).
Main issues are:
discolored water - slight clear green tint(only noticable when filling tub, white bucket)
This color exists at well, after iron filter and after softener filter but not on RO.
Iron taste - rare (when I forget to use resup/rescare in brine tank for a time).
Iron Bacteria - Toilet tank slime needs to be cleaned/bleached regularly.
I shock the well/house 1-2x per year
Other than that the water is quite good.
Seems the Filox/Metalease is slippin some of the iron thru.
Getting approx .3 mg/L of Iron (test strip) after iron filter but before softener (not sure if thats normal).
The softener is pickin up the iron load
I bumped up the GPG on the softener by 4gpg and treat with resup/rescare.
I was considering rebed of Iron filter with Katalox Light and a new internal DLFC of 5 gpm (maybe 7 gpm external DLFC)
Would this bring down the iron considerably to take the load of the softener?
Would a whole house carbon filter "polish" the water a bit after the softener to get rid of color?
Or maybe I should scrap the current Iron Filter and go with another option?
(GAC/Chlorine feed or other to deal with color & IRB?)
Sorry for the long post just tryin to get all the bits of info out there.
Any suggestions/Recommendations would be much appreciated.
Your information here is truelly helpful and informative.
Was hoping to get recommendations on new water treatment or modify existing setup.
Only the wife and I in a 3 bath house.
water analysis results from 3 weeks ago by lab at U of Ill. State Water Survey - attached(Raw, Treated).
Raw Water Key Points:
Iron 1.53 mg/L
Manganese 20.1 micro gr/L
Hardness 269 mg/L
pH 8.00
Turbidity 9.6 NTU
Color 7.1 PCU
I will apologize up front - may not be using correct terminology.Still getting up to speed.
I have a private well (300') that provides ~12gpm (per well doc's).
Grzzly 20G11 Submersible, on demand, no storage/pressure tank.
Current treatment system has been in Since 2008:
1 cu.ft. Iron Filter:
Filox/Metalease 9x48 Vortech Logix Performa Autotrol 263 set to backwash 14 min every 2 days at 9 gpm DLFC
1.5 cu.ft. Softener:
8% C100E 10x54 Vortech Logix Performa Autotrol 268 on demand set to 9lbs/cuft salt and 20 gpg
treat the softener with Resup/rescare regularly.
(I rebedded softener resin this last weekend, changed top basket, cleaned out tank & valve a bit(screens,ports).
Main issues are:
discolored water - slight clear green tint(only noticable when filling tub, white bucket)
This color exists at well, after iron filter and after softener filter but not on RO.
Iron taste - rare (when I forget to use resup/rescare in brine tank for a time).
Iron Bacteria - Toilet tank slime needs to be cleaned/bleached regularly.
I shock the well/house 1-2x per year
Other than that the water is quite good.
Seems the Filox/Metalease is slippin some of the iron thru.
Getting approx .3 mg/L of Iron (test strip) after iron filter but before softener (not sure if thats normal).
The softener is pickin up the iron load
I bumped up the GPG on the softener by 4gpg and treat with resup/rescare.
I was considering rebed of Iron filter with Katalox Light and a new internal DLFC of 5 gpm (maybe 7 gpm external DLFC)
Would this bring down the iron considerably to take the load of the softener?
Would a whole house carbon filter "polish" the water a bit after the softener to get rid of color?
Or maybe I should scrap the current Iron Filter and go with another option?
(GAC/Chlorine feed or other to deal with color & IRB?)
Sorry for the long post just tryin to get all the bits of info out there.
Any suggestions/Recommendations would be much appreciated.