Brokersdad
New Member
Hi all,
So I mentioned in my first posting on the forum I drilled a new well. On my old well I had about 18ppm iron and 5.5 Ph, had to run an Ecowater iron removal unit and a softner, both of which couldn't handle it properly. I'm thinking this new well I can get rid of the iron unit and just run a softner, but I think I am going to rebed the unit because the old stuff is about 5-6 years old and i'm guessing stripped of any good from the iron and bad Ph. One thing I have been noticing, if I test my Ph with a small aquariam type test kit, the Ph appears worse after it goes through my current water softner, can't understand why ?
I'm looking for advice on what resin to use, and have read about Purolite SST-60 resin, wondering if that's for me or not, or what would be the best for that matter. I don't understand testing enough to know if what I have is that bad or not, and how to treat it
My softner resin tank is 10 x54 and has the Autorol head on it. My well water test results are the following. and the recommendations from the lab that tested it. Thanks for any replies *** I just looked at my post and realized it wouldn't space in between my result and the recommended..sorry it's bunched together making it harder to read
To Convert mg/l total hardness to grains/gallons x0.07.
NRNG - No required numerical guideline
Actual recommended
Ph 7.23 6.5-8.5
Nitrate+Nitrate -N(mg/l) <1.00 <10mg/l
Conductance 3.72 <1500
Alkalinity(mg/l) 39 NRNG
Chloride(mg/l) 67 <250 mg/l
Total hardness(mg/l) 136.59 <500mg/l
Calcium(mg/l) 44.00 NRNG
Copper(mg/l) <0.01 <1.0 mg/l
Iron(mg/l) 3.41 <.03 mg/l
Magnesium(mg/l) 6.49 NRNG
Manganese(mg/l) 0.14 <0.05 mg/l
Sodium(mg/l) 13.40 <200 mg/l
Sulfate(mg/l) 20.63 <500 mg/l
Zinc(mg/l) <0.01 <5.0 mg/l
Potassium(mg/l) 1.02 NRNG
So I mentioned in my first posting on the forum I drilled a new well. On my old well I had about 18ppm iron and 5.5 Ph, had to run an Ecowater iron removal unit and a softner, both of which couldn't handle it properly. I'm thinking this new well I can get rid of the iron unit and just run a softner, but I think I am going to rebed the unit because the old stuff is about 5-6 years old and i'm guessing stripped of any good from the iron and bad Ph. One thing I have been noticing, if I test my Ph with a small aquariam type test kit, the Ph appears worse after it goes through my current water softner, can't understand why ?
I'm looking for advice on what resin to use, and have read about Purolite SST-60 resin, wondering if that's for me or not, or what would be the best for that matter. I don't understand testing enough to know if what I have is that bad or not, and how to treat it
My softner resin tank is 10 x54 and has the Autorol head on it. My well water test results are the following. and the recommendations from the lab that tested it. Thanks for any replies *** I just looked at my post and realized it wouldn't space in between my result and the recommended..sorry it's bunched together making it harder to read
To Convert mg/l total hardness to grains/gallons x0.07.
NRNG - No required numerical guideline
Actual recommended
Ph 7.23 6.5-8.5
Nitrate+Nitrate -N(mg/l) <1.00 <10mg/l
Conductance 3.72 <1500
Alkalinity(mg/l) 39 NRNG
Chloride(mg/l) 67 <250 mg/l
Total hardness(mg/l) 136.59 <500mg/l
Calcium(mg/l) 44.00 NRNG
Copper(mg/l) <0.01 <1.0 mg/l
Iron(mg/l) 3.41 <.03 mg/l
Magnesium(mg/l) 6.49 NRNG
Manganese(mg/l) 0.14 <0.05 mg/l
Sodium(mg/l) 13.40 <200 mg/l
Sulfate(mg/l) 20.63 <500 mg/l
Zinc(mg/l) <0.01 <5.0 mg/l
Potassium(mg/l) 1.02 NRNG
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