Hi Everyone:
We bought a house built in 1957 with a well, no septic tank, uses city sewer line. The well is 180 feet deep and puts out 17 gpm without problems. The water column is 80 feet down.
*There is no city water hooked up. *I had the water tested and wanted to share the results and get some insight. *The test was done through a spigot at the well head.
Water test results: * * *(certified lab, 100 items, pesticides, inorganics etc).
PH 6.9
Tds 350
Clear no odor (or taste by my test)
Everything was undetectable with the following exceptions:
Flagged as abnormal:
Coliform: 1 (reference <1). The last coliform test before this was negative in 2007.
No E. Coli
Nitrates 11
Flagged as detectable but within range:
Sulfate 21
Chloride 53
Arsenic .006
Calcium 71.4
Magnesium 8.96
Silica 73.1
Sodium 19
Potassium 2.6
TDS 350
I have installed a new well seal and cleared out the earwigs and debris that had accumulated within the well pump control box that was communicating with the top of the well and shock chlorinated, however I am assuming the worst, I.e. that there is a contaminated aquifer deep down and the nitrates will not go away. *I may be wrong but I want to assume that for now. *I am going to recheck bacteria and nitrate in a week or so.
I am currently setting up a sand master sediment filter, centrifugal, 200 mesh/74 microns right off the well head, as I have noticed sandy sediment in the toilet tanks and the well churned up some sediment when I shocked it, although it is usually clear.
After the sand filter, the water output will split to my irrigation and enter the house. *The house inlet will then pass through a nitrate ion exchange filter stage, and a standard Aquasana prefilter, UV, KDF, etc that comes with their EQ 300 well whole house filter system. *That will be the house pretreatment that goes to the faucets, showers, appliances etc. *Lastly, the kitchen sink will have a point of use reverse osmosis and be the source of drinking water.
Questions:
Assuming the aquifer/well for my house are going to stay "contaminated" what will be the quality of the water that enters my house using the filtration system I described?
What will be the quality of the water from my kitchen sink with the further addition of the RO?
By quality, I mean as free of impurities as our municipal water? *
As free of impurities as the best bottled water, for example something like Aquasana or Sparkletts that treats water that has already been municipally treated? *If you don't like those waters, just substitute whatever is considered to be the cleanest commercially available drinking water.
I am speaking as someone with two small children and I am also a healthcare professional*and want to optimize their health. *I want nitrates to be undetectable, not 10 or 5, and I don't want them exposed to other risks in the shower or drinking water.
In the worst case scenario I would just hook up to the city water, and I could use some of the filters, but the cost is $50,000 to hook up to the city water (thats not a misprint) and I would like to avoid it if the water I have will be just as good.
Thank You in Advance for any Insight or Experience you might share.
We bought a house built in 1957 with a well, no septic tank, uses city sewer line. The well is 180 feet deep and puts out 17 gpm without problems. The water column is 80 feet down.
*There is no city water hooked up. *I had the water tested and wanted to share the results and get some insight. *The test was done through a spigot at the well head.
Water test results: * * *(certified lab, 100 items, pesticides, inorganics etc).
PH 6.9
Tds 350
Clear no odor (or taste by my test)
Everything was undetectable with the following exceptions:
Flagged as abnormal:
Coliform: 1 (reference <1). The last coliform test before this was negative in 2007.
No E. Coli
Nitrates 11
Flagged as detectable but within range:
Sulfate 21
Chloride 53
Arsenic .006
Calcium 71.4
Magnesium 8.96
Silica 73.1
Sodium 19
Potassium 2.6
TDS 350
I have installed a new well seal and cleared out the earwigs and debris that had accumulated within the well pump control box that was communicating with the top of the well and shock chlorinated, however I am assuming the worst, I.e. that there is a contaminated aquifer deep down and the nitrates will not go away. *I may be wrong but I want to assume that for now. *I am going to recheck bacteria and nitrate in a week or so.
I am currently setting up a sand master sediment filter, centrifugal, 200 mesh/74 microns right off the well head, as I have noticed sandy sediment in the toilet tanks and the well churned up some sediment when I shocked it, although it is usually clear.
After the sand filter, the water output will split to my irrigation and enter the house. *The house inlet will then pass through a nitrate ion exchange filter stage, and a standard Aquasana prefilter, UV, KDF, etc that comes with their EQ 300 well whole house filter system. *That will be the house pretreatment that goes to the faucets, showers, appliances etc. *Lastly, the kitchen sink will have a point of use reverse osmosis and be the source of drinking water.
Questions:
Assuming the aquifer/well for my house are going to stay "contaminated" what will be the quality of the water that enters my house using the filtration system I described?
What will be the quality of the water from my kitchen sink with the further addition of the RO?
By quality, I mean as free of impurities as our municipal water? *
As free of impurities as the best bottled water, for example something like Aquasana or Sparkletts that treats water that has already been municipally treated? *If you don't like those waters, just substitute whatever is considered to be the cleanest commercially available drinking water.
I am speaking as someone with two small children and I am also a healthcare professional*and want to optimize their health. *I want nitrates to be undetectable, not 10 or 5, and I don't want them exposed to other risks in the shower or drinking water.
In the worst case scenario I would just hook up to the city water, and I could use some of the filters, but the cost is $50,000 to hook up to the city water (thats not a misprint) and I would like to avoid it if the water I have will be just as good.
Thank You in Advance for any Insight or Experience you might share.
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