OurlittleFarm
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Hey all, thanks for such a cool forum, and extra thanks for taking a look at my question!
I have got a well in the Cleveland Area in a house we just purchased.
Some facts:
* We have 4 little girls, and 6 of us total
* The previous owner ran a well drilling company, and died about a decade ago. Supposedly its a crazy deep well, and has a lot of water (which we have seen, we have yet to have any kind of issue with lack of water
* Currently the system has a greensand filter and softener (age unknown), we have been maintaining both the purple permanganate and salt.
* Water (from the head, tap cold and tap hot) all smell, not really like eggs, it stinks, but I think it may be iron given the below
* Toilet has brown streaks
* After showering in the water, myself and a few others broke out in hives
* The greensand system uses the entire container of purple every two days
* Just recently had well sanitized
Water test results (done at home, kit from cleanwaterstore dot com) from the untreated water
* Alkalinity: 200ppm
* Iron: 3.5ppm
* Copper: 1.3ppm
* ph: 8.5
* TDS: 1450
* Hydrogen Sulfide 0.3
* Also, when running a torch over the water tap, the flame turns yellow (instead of blue), implying some gas (natural?) coming through
* Hardness: 100
* Nitrate, Nitrite, Chlorine, Manganese, Coliform, E.Coli, Pesticide all were 0/negative
My plan:
* My assumption at this point is that the greensand is either in need of replacement, or completely failed. Additionally, daily/bi-daily need to replenish the purple is not practical for us, so I am going to decomm the greensand
* I found a brand new, 10GPM in 5GPM out RO system on eBay (meant for another project but got cancelled) I got for $2900. Full spec attached
* Got a 12GPM UV system with controller I got for $500, had 9 months of use prior
* Intending to add two laters of spindown to prefix the entire thing
* Also thinking about adding a Pro-Ox pre-filter to the RO system
* Be cause of the high flow RO, I am hoping to keep the pressurized output of the RO system, with a 35 gallon pressurized storage tank, directly to the house mains
* I am planning to keep two of every consumable replacement part on hand.
I put together a diagram, screenshot below, and I attached a PDF with better detail
(full vectorized/zoomable PDF attached)
What I am looking for
Any words of wisdom, or significant changes of plan to what I am putting together. I already have the UV and RO system, so those are fixed, but we can add/move/remove other pieces as needed. I have plenty of plumbing experience, but this is my first whole-home water processing facility.
Thanks for your time!
I have got a well in the Cleveland Area in a house we just purchased.
Some facts:
* We have 4 little girls, and 6 of us total
* The previous owner ran a well drilling company, and died about a decade ago. Supposedly its a crazy deep well, and has a lot of water (which we have seen, we have yet to have any kind of issue with lack of water
* Currently the system has a greensand filter and softener (age unknown), we have been maintaining both the purple permanganate and salt.
* Water (from the head, tap cold and tap hot) all smell, not really like eggs, it stinks, but I think it may be iron given the below
* Toilet has brown streaks
* After showering in the water, myself and a few others broke out in hives
* The greensand system uses the entire container of purple every two days
* Just recently had well sanitized
Water test results (done at home, kit from cleanwaterstore dot com) from the untreated water
* Alkalinity: 200ppm
* Iron: 3.5ppm
* Copper: 1.3ppm
* ph: 8.5
* TDS: 1450
* Hydrogen Sulfide 0.3
* Also, when running a torch over the water tap, the flame turns yellow (instead of blue), implying some gas (natural?) coming through
* Hardness: 100
* Nitrate, Nitrite, Chlorine, Manganese, Coliform, E.Coli, Pesticide all were 0/negative
My plan:
* My assumption at this point is that the greensand is either in need of replacement, or completely failed. Additionally, daily/bi-daily need to replenish the purple is not practical for us, so I am going to decomm the greensand
* I found a brand new, 10GPM in 5GPM out RO system on eBay (meant for another project but got cancelled) I got for $2900. Full spec attached
* Got a 12GPM UV system with controller I got for $500, had 9 months of use prior
* Intending to add two laters of spindown to prefix the entire thing
* Also thinking about adding a Pro-Ox pre-filter to the RO system
* Be cause of the high flow RO, I am hoping to keep the pressurized output of the RO system, with a 35 gallon pressurized storage tank, directly to the house mains
* I am planning to keep two of every consumable replacement part on hand.
I put together a diagram, screenshot below, and I attached a PDF with better detail
(full vectorized/zoomable PDF attached)
What I am looking for
Any words of wisdom, or significant changes of plan to what I am putting together. I already have the UV and RO system, so those are fixed, but we can add/move/remove other pieces as needed. I have plenty of plumbing experience, but this is my first whole-home water processing facility.
Thanks for your time!