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Kalfadal

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Currently have h2o2 with catalytic carbon for iron removal followed by filter ag and post carbon and water softener. Having a hard time removing all the iron and IRB. Currently injecting 70 ppm of h2o2. Water coming out of my flexx infusion system is light orange.

Any recommendations on a better media or perhaps a different system? Can backwash at 6 gpm.
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Currently have h2o2 with catalytic carbon for iron removal followed by filter ag and post carbon and water softener. Having a hard time removing all the iron and IRB. Currently injecting 70 ppm of h2o2. Water coming out of my flexx infusion system is light orange.

Any recommendations on a better media or perhaps a different system? Can backwash at 6 gpm. View attachment 101021
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About to post my own question about a h2o2 system so I don't have answers for you. But, wow, I thought my water was bad! I think you might be near the limit of the Flexx system. Have you contacted US Water for help?
 

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Catalytic carbon is not normally effective for removing iron or manganese, but is beneficial to remove H2S which causes rotten egg odor.

If you are injecting hydrogen peroxide before the CC, then the carbon will be removing the peroxide before it has had opportunity to oxidize the ferrous iron from the well, to convert it to a ferric state, to allow it to be removed by sediment filtration.

Your 6.5 pH level is also working against you. Removal of iron and manganese will be most effective with a pH >7.0, so you may want to install an acid neutralizer as an initial treatment method.

For iron, manganese & H2S reduction, the usual recommended media is Katalox Light. KL is also beneficial for sediment filtration as it is capable of removing particles <3 microns.

As you mentioned IRB (iron reducing bacteria), although IRB is not harmful, if you do wish to remove it, then for the presence of any type of bacteria, peroxide would not be recommended as it increases the oxygen content which will feed bacteria and cause it to proliferate. To best neutralize any type of bacteria, chlorine or ozone is recommended. Both chlorine or ozone (O3) may be utilized directly with KL media, so chlorine will often be injected directly prior to a KL filter, or ozone maybe drawn into the KL tank, utilizing an AIO3 system.

While the KL media will remove iron, manganese, H2S and other sediment particles down to ~3 microns, your existing CC backwashing filter should be located directly following the KL filter, to remove residual chlorine and other chemical contaminants, while also polishing the water before flowing to the home's fixtures.
 

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Appreciate the response. Sounds like I’ll need to switch systems as I’m getting iron slime in my pipes between the h2o2 and filter and after it too. My well is limited on water availability so trying to limit the number of backwashing filters. Would going the soda ash route for pH be too much for smaller pH change? Or would adding too much sodium cause corrosive issues? Also, do you know of any issues with having silica in my water negatively interacting with KL?
 

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About to post my own question about a h2o2 system so I don't have answers for you. But, wow, I thought my water was bad! I think you might be near the limit of the Flexx system. Have you contacted US Water for help?

Yeah I have. Apparently my turbidity was too high for the h2o2 to be effective. I was trying to run a 4.5 x 20 5 micron sediment filter to reduce it but it wasn’t reducing it by much. They recommended putting the filter ag prior to the h2o2 and surprisingly it seems to be working for now as of today.

Ran a small test, put the filter ag in by pass and the water coming out of the flexx system was orange. Put the filter ag back in service and water coming out of flexx was now mostly clear.
 
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