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questionable tap water

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what's tap water in your area like? ours is, apparently, getting -much- better. for a while there, it was horrible. i mean...while mama was still at her job, a lady there said the tap water killed the fish in her kids' aquarium. true story. and now..

they're doing something to make it less horrible smelling, more palatable. dad said we may even be able to start using it to make coffee and boil pasta, which was a -definite- no no for a while there...the stuff smelled toxic and tasted terrible, too.

anyway...I'm thankful that things are getting better 'round here....how's the tap water where you are?
 
I'm on a well, shared by 5 houses. The area was 'settled' while it was the frontier. Very antiquated stuff. One of those houses (right next to me) is torn down, and will apparently be a while before it's rebuilt. The house on the other side of me is doing some major construction that he needs the water turned off for.

So I have no water, to have any quality issues with!

I installed a whole house filter, which feeds into a water softener. From the tap, I use a Pur filter in a canister to drink. So the water quality from my well isn't so hot. Plus my water softener is on the fritz ... clogged up from sediment? I need to take it apart and see what I can do. Maybe replace it with reverse osmosis + type purification.
 
Razeontherock said:
I'm on a well, shared by 5 houses. The area was 'settled' while it was the frontier. Very antiquated stuff. One of those houses (right next to me) is torn down, and will apparently be a while before it's rebuilt. The house on the other side of me is doing some major construction that he needs the water turned off for.

So I have no water, to have any quality issues with!

I installed a whole house filter, which feeds into a water softener. From the tap, I use a Pur filter in a canister to drink. So the water quality from my well isn't so hot. Plus my water softener is on the fritz ... clogged up from sediment? I need to take it apart and see what I can do. Maybe replace it with reverse osmosis + type purification.
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Why doesn't each house have its own shut off valve so all of the other ones are not inconvenienced when one house needs the water shutoff?
 
The water around here is generally pretty good, but once in awhile it smells moldy. It may have something to do with the fire department opening their taps to clean them out every once in awhile. Once the water came out yellow. Turned out manganese was in the system from the treatment plant. I keep bottled water handy due to the inconsistent quality.
 
The best water I've had was from a well in the outskirts of Boise Idaho.
Portland OR was okay... you could drink it... same with Pinson Alabama. Water in Alaska was good but practically tasteless. Apparently they had naturally pure water and had to buy refuse from fish processing plants so they could remove it because of the way that the EPA had written the standards.
Bay Area California and Manhattan NY had the worst. It was so chlorinated that hot water could bleach out beet juice stains from your hands.

Middle-of-Nowhere Georgia has decent well water and public water. Nothing special about it. But it does tend to be a bit hard... clogging up shower heads inside a year.

In Slovakia and Brazil the subject came up.
The water in Europe is usually undrinkable and not potable. And bottled water reigns supreme. Most of the natives like a light carbonation to their water.
Brazil as well has issues with potable water but... everyone drinks it anyway in the form of a type of cold-brewed tea. But sometimes a well does produce good water.
 
Edward said:
Because the system prolly went in in the 1920's is what I'd guess
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Well (pun totally intended), I would suggest installing shut off valves while the well is down. May take a bit of doing depending on where the water lines run, but it will be well worth it in the long run.
 
Knotical said:
Well (pun totally intended), I would suggest installing shut off valves while the well is down. May take a bit of doing depending on where the water lines run, but it will be well worth it in the long run.
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That stuff is Prolly four foot deep! A good time to have sons lol.
Or just as it enters the house since the wells down anyway lol.
 
Edward said:
That stuff is Prolly four foot deep! A good time to have sons lol.
Or just as it enters the house since the wells down anyway lol.
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Where does it enter your house? You could tie in a shut-off valve right there. Put it just upstream of your filter.
 
We have spring fed well water which is very good in quality. We do have a filter on it as even spring fed you can get some impurities. It's tied into three homes, but each has it's on shut off valve.
 
Razeontherock said:
I'm on a well, shared by 5 houses. The area was 'settled' while it was the frontier. Very antiquated stuff. One of those houses (right next to me) is torn down, and will apparently be a while before it's rebuilt. The house on the other side of me is doing some major construction that he needs the water turned off for.

So I have no water, to have any quality issues with!

I installed a whole house filter, which feeds into a water softener. From the tap, I use a Pur filter in a canister to drink. So the water quality from my well isn't so hot. Plus my water softener is on the fritz ... clogged up from sediment? I need to take it apart and see what I can do. Maybe replace it with reverse osmosis + type purification.
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Were on a well too, but it's not shared.
I wont drink it. We purchase bottled water and we have a 5 gal water cooler.
I usually shock the well every 3 or 4 years and maintain it with hydrogen peroxide twice a year, or when it smells.
 
for_his_glory said:
We have spring fed well water which is very good in quality. We do have a filter on it as even spring fed you can get some impurities. It's tied into three homes, but each has it's on shut off valve.
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Nice! Reminds me of the water in Spokane Wa. They have some of the best water in the nation.
 
There is no trees with food and no streams for water. There are trees everywhere but no food on them. Look around, where is all the food and water. There should be millions of trees with food.
 
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Edward said:
Because the system prolly went in in the 1920's is what I'd guess
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1920's?!? You all newfangled folk, I tell ya. Nope, this was the frontier barely after the Civil War got done, built maybe 1869 - 1876, nobody's really sure but we do each have a deeded bridle path to bring the horses to water
 
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