First, let me say a lot of you men crack me up, Gary Sussler in particular I have been reading some of your threads for a while now and am finally posting as I am out of ideas.
We obviously have well water. The numbers are not horrible.
Ph 7.1
Hardness 290
TDS 243
Turbidity 6.7
Iron .6ppm
Manganese .032
Copper .03
Sulfate 16.4
Tannin with rain .5. Without rain .2
Toluene .003 ppm later read electrical tape on a new well may account for this, had .012 in old well
Definitely some sulphur odor
One and a half year old well, we had problems with our 24 year old well and had a new one drilled. Altogether different issues. So from the well, in sequence, pressure tank, sand trap, duke aerator with air injection and spray nozzles with contact tank that oxidizes the ferris to ferric and has a fan assisted vent to the outdoors, another pressure tank, 1 cu ft mangox iron backwashing tank, low end model two banger water softener with regular resin, uv light, to point of use. We have removed 70% of the odor but I am trying to remove the remainder. After a bit more testing, we did find that we still have .1ppm of iron and .5ppm tannins. I would say the remaining odor/taste is very metallic, bitter, almost man made at times and have considered it is from the new tanks, well pump etc..... Strangely, we tried a tannin filter with tanex, (thinking I finally nailed it) for only a few days and it dropped our ph which is 7.6 after aeration to 5.75 and the odor increased 3 fold. We did plumb it post softener. Currently have it bypassed. Not sure that tannins of .5ppm could cause the odor we have and am wondering if it could be the remaining, minuscule amount of iron left over. Thought of re bedding the softeners with a fine mesh resin. We also tried raising the ph in hopes of furthering the iron oxidation prior to the duke aerator if it was in fact the remaining iron, did not change. Chlorine and hydrogen peroxide in the duke contact tank strangely raises the odor as well. Any thoughts or suggestions? FYI, not a fan of carbon, and yes, we have tried it! Thanks.
We obviously have well water. The numbers are not horrible.
Ph 7.1
Hardness 290
TDS 243
Turbidity 6.7
Iron .6ppm
Manganese .032
Copper .03
Sulfate 16.4
Tannin with rain .5. Without rain .2
Toluene .003 ppm later read electrical tape on a new well may account for this, had .012 in old well
Definitely some sulphur odor
One and a half year old well, we had problems with our 24 year old well and had a new one drilled. Altogether different issues. So from the well, in sequence, pressure tank, sand trap, duke aerator with air injection and spray nozzles with contact tank that oxidizes the ferris to ferric and has a fan assisted vent to the outdoors, another pressure tank, 1 cu ft mangox iron backwashing tank, low end model two banger water softener with regular resin, uv light, to point of use. We have removed 70% of the odor but I am trying to remove the remainder. After a bit more testing, we did find that we still have .1ppm of iron and .5ppm tannins. I would say the remaining odor/taste is very metallic, bitter, almost man made at times and have considered it is from the new tanks, well pump etc..... Strangely, we tried a tannin filter with tanex, (thinking I finally nailed it) for only a few days and it dropped our ph which is 7.6 after aeration to 5.75 and the odor increased 3 fold. We did plumb it post softener. Currently have it bypassed. Not sure that tannins of .5ppm could cause the odor we have and am wondering if it could be the remaining, minuscule amount of iron left over. Thought of re bedding the softeners with a fine mesh resin. We also tried raising the ph in hopes of furthering the iron oxidation prior to the duke aerator if it was in fact the remaining iron, did not change. Chlorine and hydrogen peroxide in the duke contact tank strangely raises the odor as well. Any thoughts or suggestions? FYI, not a fan of carbon, and yes, we have tried it! Thanks.