Re: Removing heavy metals from well water
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Re: Removing heavy metals from well water
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Unless your willing to back mineralize your water I'd stay away from a R.O system, it's terribly aggressive.
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Re: Removing heavy metals from well water
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Re: Removing heavy metals from well water
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Smaller the footprint the better as I don’t have a lot of room to work with. Here’s my water test.
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Re: Removing heavy metals from well water
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I can run that by my water treatment guy on monday -- doesn't look like anything a standard softener couldn't handle though. Ok Thanks.
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Re: Removing heavy metals from well water
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The hardness is pretty low (106). A softener will remove the iron and manganese but is not really needed for the hardness. You can also use a house hold chlorine injection system to oxidize the iron and manganese and then use a filter to remove the oxidized iron and manganese. You will need some contact time for complete oxidation, 30 to 60 seconds. I would install a backwashable filter (spindown or rusco are a couple of brands) with a 100 mesh stainless steel screen between the injection point and the bladder/pressure tank. This will remove the iron and manganese particles along with other solids (fine sand, etc.) and allow you to backwash the solids from the filter. Add a carbon filter if you don't like the flavor of your water. Just remember maintenance is required on both types of systems -- neither system is horrible for maintenance.
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Re: Removing heavy metals from well water
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Manganese and iron aren't generally consider heavy metals in the context you are referring to. Heavy metals are elements such as arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, and mercury. If it were me I wouldn't tell people your well has "heavy metals".
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Re: Removing heavy metals from well water
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I will check with them, I see they have a Terminox Iron water filter maybe that would be the way to go? My biggest concern is removing the Manganese and Iron as the water isn't too hard I guess being at 100 mg Further reading claims you shouldn't drink softened water as the high sodium content, I want something I can drink without more additional treatment.
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Re: Removing heavy metals from well water
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Manganese and iron aren't generally consider heavy metals in the context you are referring to. Heavy metals are elements such as arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, and mercury. If it were me I wouldn't tell people your well has "heavy metals". That was my exact same thought.
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Re: Removing heavy metals from well water
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Manganese and iron aren't generally consider heavy metals in the context you are referring to. Heavy metals are elements such as arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, and mercury. If it were me I wouldn't tell people your well has "heavy metals". ^this is accurate....sawyer does make a hand held filter which removes actual 'heavy metals' from water....
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