Hello all,
Hoping to get some advice as we are new homeowners who have not had a water treatment system before. Our house is on a well yielding about 4 gal/minute and have a 5 gal/minute well pump. We will have four adults living at the house and may add two more if my daughter and her husband move in for college. The current water softener is about 12 years old and needs replacing as the knobs barely turn and the water level in the brine tank is too high. The house has been vacant for several months but we ran the water for an hour the night before testing.
The raw water test from a local lab shows the following:
Coliform negative
ph: 7.11
Sodium 38 mg/l
Total Iron .41 mg/l
Manganese .12 mg/l
Total Hardness 277 mg/l
Alkalinity 147 mg/l
Chloride 115
Turbidity 7.1
Free CO2 92 mg/l
We see some brownish staining in the toilet bowls and there is a lot of blue staining wherever water has dripped from the plumbing in the basement. The washer hose bib and the bottoms of some of the faucet assemblies is blue green and "fuzzy" We've been told it is a problem with the CO2 in the water.
Can folks make some recommendations on a treatment programs and equipment please.
Thanks in advance!
Hoping to get some advice as we are new homeowners who have not had a water treatment system before. Our house is on a well yielding about 4 gal/minute and have a 5 gal/minute well pump. We will have four adults living at the house and may add two more if my daughter and her husband move in for college. The current water softener is about 12 years old and needs replacing as the knobs barely turn and the water level in the brine tank is too high. The house has been vacant for several months but we ran the water for an hour the night before testing.
The raw water test from a local lab shows the following:
Coliform negative
ph: 7.11
Sodium 38 mg/l
Total Iron .41 mg/l
Manganese .12 mg/l
Total Hardness 277 mg/l
Alkalinity 147 mg/l
Chloride 115
Turbidity 7.1
Free CO2 92 mg/l
We see some brownish staining in the toilet bowls and there is a lot of blue staining wherever water has dripped from the plumbing in the basement. The washer hose bib and the bottoms of some of the faucet assemblies is blue green and "fuzzy" We've been told it is a problem with the CO2 in the water.
Can folks make some recommendations on a treatment programs and equipment please.
Thanks in advance!
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