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Folks,
You all helped me tremendously 7 years ago when I drilled an irrigation well and needed to learn about softeners. Now I have new house under construction and just drilled 2 new wells. In this area wells of practical depth are either iron containing or sulfur. Not usually both. Generally iron is in the shallower depth and we found very high iron at about 80' with no sulfur. I chose no iron I have great production from both wells - over 25 gpm each. Analysis so far:
Iron 0
Copper 0
Sulfur 3-4 ppm (H2S
Alkalinity 214
Total Hardness 9 gr/gal
pH 7.9
no bacteria or slime
There are about 300 homes in this community and all are on wells. Some people have shallower high iron wells. Some like me have deeper sulfur wells. All are about the same hardness and pH. Most use AIO catalytic carbon (Iron Buster Brand). There are also quite a few mostly older homes that use direct injection chlorine systems. And a few use a newer media called Katalox light. All seem to treat the water very effectively. All homes also have a traditional salt softener after the iron/sulfur removal. So what do you all think for the H2S removal? Chlorine injection, Air Injection Catalytic Carbon, or Katalox? Also brand name (Iron Buster) or generic? Katalox seems to have the ability to remove fairly high levels of H2S and iron so I'm leaning toward a generic Fleck 5600 sxt softener downstream of a Katalox system. Katalox is a little more expensive but not much $ ($100 or so). And I know that in some areas if you don't have iron to start with you will eventually. We'll have under sink RO for kitchen drinking and water/ice maker in the fridge.
Thanks in advance!
Chris
You all helped me tremendously 7 years ago when I drilled an irrigation well and needed to learn about softeners. Now I have new house under construction and just drilled 2 new wells. In this area wells of practical depth are either iron containing or sulfur. Not usually both. Generally iron is in the shallower depth and we found very high iron at about 80' with no sulfur. I chose no iron I have great production from both wells - over 25 gpm each. Analysis so far:
Iron 0
Copper 0
Sulfur 3-4 ppm (H2S
Alkalinity 214
Total Hardness 9 gr/gal
pH 7.9
no bacteria or slime
There are about 300 homes in this community and all are on wells. Some people have shallower high iron wells. Some like me have deeper sulfur wells. All are about the same hardness and pH. Most use AIO catalytic carbon (Iron Buster Brand). There are also quite a few mostly older homes that use direct injection chlorine systems. And a few use a newer media called Katalox light. All seem to treat the water very effectively. All homes also have a traditional salt softener after the iron/sulfur removal. So what do you all think for the H2S removal? Chlorine injection, Air Injection Catalytic Carbon, or Katalox? Also brand name (Iron Buster) or generic? Katalox seems to have the ability to remove fairly high levels of H2S and iron so I'm leaning toward a generic Fleck 5600 sxt softener downstream of a Katalox system. Katalox is a little more expensive but not much $ ($100 or so). And I know that in some areas if you don't have iron to start with you will eventually. We'll have under sink RO for kitchen drinking and water/ice maker in the fridge.
Thanks in advance!
Chris