AlleyAndy
New Member
The well water at our 15-year-old house has high iron content, so we can't drink it, and it leaves rust stains on all of the fixtures.
We had a number of people come in to propose a solution, but none seemed sure or confident of how to cure the problem.
Through a contact at a nearby municipal water treatment plant, I was introduced to the Aqua-Pure (Cuno) APIR100M Chem-free Iron Removal System. Finding nobody who was willing to install one, my wife purchased the APIR100M, hydrocharger, a Q42V galvanized tank from Quick Tanks, and an Ametek (U.S. Gauge) model WJ air volume control.
We already have a Well-Rite WR240R pressure tank installed, which is working fine.
I received a one-page sheet from Aqua-Pure that shows that this should be installed as follows:
Well -> Hydrocharger -> Galvanized Tank -> Well-Rite tank -> Aqua-Pure Filter -> To house
My understanding is that the Hydrocharger injects air into the incoming water which then flows into the galvanized tank where the iron reacts with the oxygen in the injected air, and the iron is later removed by the Aqua-Pure filter.
I was also told that the air volume control, which is installed about halfway up on the galvanized tank, would purge off the air previously injected by the hydrocharger.
Since I'm connecting copper tubing to the galvanized tank, I planned to come off the galvanized tank with a 2" galvanized nipple to a galvanized tee. The incoming will be plastic well pipe to a brass barb fitting, brass threaded union, brass nipple, hydrocharger, and brass nipple to the galvanized tee. On the outgoing, from the galvanized tee to a brass nipple to a brass tee with a drain valve and a brass nipple to a copper fitting, then on to the rest of the system.
Here's what it looks like:
My questions:
1) The fitting on the galvanized tank is 12" from the bottom. Won't the galvanized tank just end up collecting a lot of iron and sediment on the bottom, with no way to flush it?
2) Why don't they have the Aqua-Pure filter right after the galvanized tank, to remove the iron before it's stored in the Well-Rite tank?
3) Is the setup on the galvanized tank sufficient to avoid any problems going from the galvanized tank to copper house plumbing?
4) Is there any benefit to adding a cartridge filter anywhere in this setup? I have a dual-cartridge setup that was never installed, with two large 4" filters, one with smaller micron filter, to create a two-stage coarse/fine filtering.
5) Will the years-worth of iron that's no doubt in the water pipes ever flush out, or am I doomed to forever seeing rust in all the fixtures? I'll be flushing the water heater and existing Well-Rite prior to installing the iron filter.
I would appreciate any comments, suggestions and concerns about this setup.
Thanks!
We had a number of people come in to propose a solution, but none seemed sure or confident of how to cure the problem.
Through a contact at a nearby municipal water treatment plant, I was introduced to the Aqua-Pure (Cuno) APIR100M Chem-free Iron Removal System. Finding nobody who was willing to install one, my wife purchased the APIR100M, hydrocharger, a Q42V galvanized tank from Quick Tanks, and an Ametek (U.S. Gauge) model WJ air volume control.
We already have a Well-Rite WR240R pressure tank installed, which is working fine.
I received a one-page sheet from Aqua-Pure that shows that this should be installed as follows:
Well -> Hydrocharger -> Galvanized Tank -> Well-Rite tank -> Aqua-Pure Filter -> To house
My understanding is that the Hydrocharger injects air into the incoming water which then flows into the galvanized tank where the iron reacts with the oxygen in the injected air, and the iron is later removed by the Aqua-Pure filter.
I was also told that the air volume control, which is installed about halfway up on the galvanized tank, would purge off the air previously injected by the hydrocharger.
Since I'm connecting copper tubing to the galvanized tank, I planned to come off the galvanized tank with a 2" galvanized nipple to a galvanized tee. The incoming will be plastic well pipe to a brass barb fitting, brass threaded union, brass nipple, hydrocharger, and brass nipple to the galvanized tee. On the outgoing, from the galvanized tee to a brass nipple to a brass tee with a drain valve and a brass nipple to a copper fitting, then on to the rest of the system.
Here's what it looks like:
My questions:
1) The fitting on the galvanized tank is 12" from the bottom. Won't the galvanized tank just end up collecting a lot of iron and sediment on the bottom, with no way to flush it?
2) Why don't they have the Aqua-Pure filter right after the galvanized tank, to remove the iron before it's stored in the Well-Rite tank?
3) Is the setup on the galvanized tank sufficient to avoid any problems going from the galvanized tank to copper house plumbing?
4) Is there any benefit to adding a cartridge filter anywhere in this setup? I have a dual-cartridge setup that was never installed, with two large 4" filters, one with smaller micron filter, to create a two-stage coarse/fine filtering.
5) Will the years-worth of iron that's no doubt in the water pipes ever flush out, or am I doomed to forever seeing rust in all the fixtures? I'll be flushing the water heater and existing Well-Rite prior to installing the iron filter.
I would appreciate any comments, suggestions and concerns about this setup.
Thanks!