Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 6:45 pm Re: Green, cloudy water again, even after a water change
I asked the water specialist, yesterday, about installing an RO system at the source of our water, and he said it would cost about $10,000. (Did I tell you that Ontario is an expensive place?) The kitchen sink tap would be only $1,000.
This is our second well. The first was contaminated by e-coli (19 years ago) caused by vegetation but when it was working alright, we never had a problem with iron. This well we have now, has a lot of iron so we have a softening system that uses salt. Before we had it, we couldn't get laundry, sinks, toilets, and ourselves clean. And as I said, the system served us well. (no pun intended)
I have shown your last post to my husband and he was at first worried about complications of checking the motor but then he figured he'd give it a try. (Krush is my turtle but he helps me with care of the environment) I will show him this post too. Thank you!
Carbon isn't the best when it comes to media, because it leaches stuff that bad bacteria feed on? I have always used it due to good recommendations. So perhaps I will not use it anymore depending on the results of our water test done by the Ministry of Well Water or whatever it's called. But they take two samples a couple days apart and they supply the bottles and they do the testing for free. Ontario doesn't have a regulation for UV sterilizers. Maybe other provinces do but not this one.
If I remember, when we clean up the impeller, I'll take a photo.
Thanks again! You're a life saver
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