Wily Fox aka Angela wrote: We suspected the same thing, but here is what we have found at our place. We test ourselves. Copper test kits are easy to get and use. (main use is for aquarium testing).
The water is very acidic here, comes out of ground at about 6.2. We have copper pipes. The water that sits in the pipes eats at the copper a bit and the water that first comes out contains copper. If we allow the water to run for a minute, then test, the copper levels are almost gone.
We have been looking at systems that raise PH, but they are not cheap.
Our well is about 20 feet deep and almost 10 feet across (the neck is about 2 feet across). What I just thought of that we have not done is pull some water directly out of well before it enters pipes and test it. I'll see if we can get that done this week. We have customers flying in for the next 3 days, so it will have to be after that.
When we fill our spa, first thing we do, is to get alkalinity UP and PH UP to normal ranges. After that, the spa sits nicely in within range.
Frankly you do not need an expensive system. If you can rig up the plumbing so that it passes water through a canister (screw top) into which you can put limestone you can reduce the ph.
Science Chic wrote: I didn't save any of them after I moved out of King's Valley, but we used to get yearly water testing reports from our water supplier (it's a unique area in that there's "community" water and sewer). I don't remember copper being a problem (uranium and a couple other ions did were though), but every area will be slightly different because of what's in the ground filtering the water (please correct me if I'm wrong Rockdoc). If I were you Scooby, I'd see if I could get a copy of any water reports for the area you are moving into, or test yourself as Wily does. You only need to worry if any ions are outside of their recommended safe range and which ions they are as each has a different toxicity.
Science Chic wrote: I didn't save any of them after I moved out of King's Valley, but we used to get yearly water testing reports from our water supplier (it's a unique area in that there's "community" water and sewer). I don't remember copper being a problem (uranium and a couple other ions did were though), but every area will be slightly different because of what's in the ground filtering the water (please correct me if I'm wrong Rockdoc). If I were you Scooby, I'd see if I could get a copy of any water reports for the area you are moving into, or test yourself as Wily does. You only need to worry if any ions are outside of their recommended safe range and which ions they are as each has a different toxicity.
Still in KV, copper is not an issue here, uranium and a couple of other nucular material are. One of the advantages of a community water system is that we have multiple wells to draw from to mitigate nuclear material. Also it should be noted that a community water system is held to very high standards both in repoting and what they have to report. A big plus is that this summer we are starting on a new water treatment plant that will remove any harmful agents including nuclear. We will have the cleanest water in Colorado.
Wily Fox aka Angela wrote: We suspected the same thing, but here is what we have found at our place. We test ourselves. Copper test kits are easy to get and use. (main use is for aquarium testing).
The water is very acidic here, comes out of ground at about 6.2. We have copper pipes. The water that sits in the pipes eats at the copper a bit and the water that first comes out contains copper. If we allow the water to run for a minute, then test, the copper levels are almost gone.
We have been looking at systems that raise PH, but they are not cheap.
Our well is about 20 feet deep and almost 10 feet across (the neck is about 2 feet across). What I just thought of that we have not done is pull some water directly out of well before it enters pipes and test it. I'll see if we can get that done this week. We have customers flying in for the next 3 days, so it will have to be after that.
When we fill our spa, first thing we do, is to get alkalinity UP and PH UP to normal ranges. After that, the spa sits nicely in within range.
Frankly you do not need an expensive system. If you can rig up the plumbing so that it passes water through a canister (screw top) into which you can put limestone you can reduce the ph.
hmmmm..... I used to put crushed coral in the fish tank to raise the ph...I'll pass along to the Rogernator...(and I know you meant RAISE the ph) THANKS!
notice that I mentioned the SPA AGAIN?!?!??! hee hee heee
