If you're wondering about how effective water treatment equipment can be, here are some examples from recent water treatment installations
Contaminant Level
|
Complaint |
Where: |
Source: |
Before Treatment |
After Treatment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Hard Water |
Ellinger, Texas |
Private well |
20 grains |
0 grains |
|
Iron Water |
Bastrop County, Tx. |
Private well |
4.72 ppm |
.637 ppm |
|
Stinky Water/H2S |
Waelder, Texas |
Private well |
< 5 ppm |
>.2 ppm |
|
“Rural Water” (*) |
Smithville area |
Municipal water |
|
|
|
Total dissolved solids |
|
|
141 ppm |
8.67 ppm |
|
Alkalinity |
|
|
26 ppm |
4 ppm |
|
Conductance |
|
|
197 umhos/cm |
10 umhos/cm |
(*) no specific complaint, "just want a better quality water, if we can get it."
Source: Texas Water Savers Co. (2012)