Hello all!
I'm about to purchase a water softener and iron filter for my new house, and I wanted to double check with the experts here to make sure I've got the right system. We have fairly hard water (21.5 gpg), and a bit of iron (0.07 ppm) and sulfur (65.6 ppm) so my goal is to get nice, soft water without the iron and sulfur.
The solution I've come up with:
Apologies for the wall-o-data below, I don't know which is the pertinent information and which isn't!
Private well:
Thoughts/comments/criticisms welcome!
Thank you!
I'm about to purchase a water softener and iron filter for my new house, and I wanted to double check with the experts here to make sure I've got the right system. We have fairly hard water (21.5 gpg), and a bit of iron (0.07 ppm) and sulfur (65.6 ppm) so my goal is to get nice, soft water without the iron and sulfur.
The solution I've come up with:
- For iron:
- Fleck 2510 2.0 cu.ft Greensand filtering system, 10-12 GPM flow, 12x48 tank
- For water softener:
- Fleck 2510SXT 64,000 grain, 2.0 cu.ft system
Apologies for the wall-o-data below, I don't know which is the pertinent information and which isn't!
Private well:
- approximately 660' deep
- 2500 gallon storage tank, 85 gallon pressure tank
- 20GPM shallow pump feeding the 85 gallon tank
- 5 people, 4 full bathrooms
- Septic tank rated at 750 gal/day
- CaCO3:
- Hardness: 21.5 gpg (369 mg/L)
- Alkalinity: 347 mg/L
- Bicarbonate: 344 mg/L
- Carbonate: 3.23 mg/L
- Iron: 0.07 mg/L
- pH: 8.0
- TDS: 700 mg/L
- Magnesium: 58.2 mg/L
- Calcium: 51.7 mg/L
- Sulfur: 65.6 mg/L
- Sulfate: 193 mg/L
- Sodium: 60 mg/L
- EDIT: Manganese: None found -- (report says < 0.005mg/L)
Thoughts/comments/criticisms welcome!
Thank you!
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