SirReal63 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Has anyone done a test of our water to see what has been added? How about a tds reading before filtration? 35 years in the area before I left and I was always on well water...I have no idea how our water looks after it has been treated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsr Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 I tested the TDS in Cedar Park and got a 286 reading. This was about a month ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirReal63 Posted December 15, 2007 Author Share Posted December 15, 2007 That is not bad but a different water supply...I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headless_donkey Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Not to pimp the guys too much, but John and Brian at Kingfish no the answer. Don't they always? JK LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcreonx Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 My TDS downtown Austin reads around 126. The water is definitely hard. Other than that I havent tested it. After my RoDI it is 0 of course. Much better than my water in Florida which was a TDS of around 630! Nasty stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4R00P3R Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 It will be different in every house. My TDS is over 999ppm, but my parents house is around 150ppm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GKarshens Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Mine is about 163. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirReal63 Posted December 15, 2007 Author Share Posted December 15, 2007 Looks like our water in general is pretty good. Good to know. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chatfouz Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 (edited) this is from austin city. for industrial. i assume its darn near the same for locals? what do yall think? Drinking Drinking Water Quality Report Parameter Units Method Cd Green WTP T1 Davis WTP T2,T2H Ullrich WTP T3 ----------------- ----- --------------- ----------- ----------- pH SU SM 4500-H B AVG MAX MIN 10.2 10.3 9.9 AVG MAX MIN 9.7 9.9 9.4 AVG MAX MIN 9.6 9.8 9.1 Total Alkalinity MG/L SM 2320 B AVG MAX MIN 50 64 42 AVG MAX MIN 48 56 43 AVG MAX MIN 54 60 47 Total Hardness MG/L SM 2340 C AVG MAX MIN 83 94 73 AVG MAX MIN 72 78 67 AVG MAX MIN 78 85 72 Total Solids MG/L SM 2540 B AVG MAX MIN 143 160 128 AVG MAX MIN 126 152 116 AVG MAX MIN 136 168 112 Total Chlorine Residual MG/L SM 4500-CL F AVG MAX MIN 2.13 2.55 1.80 AVG MAX MIN 2.29 2.75 2.00 AVG MAX MIN 2.18 2.50 1.85 Sulfate MG/L SM 4500-SO4 E AVG MAX MIN 32.0 32.0 32.0 AVG MAX MIN 30.5 32.6 28.4 AVG MAX MIN 42.0 42.0 42.0 Total Organic Carbon MG/L SM 5310 C AVG MAX MIN 2.16 2.62 1.87 AVG MAX MIN 2.94 3.09 2.8 AVG MAX MIN 3.10 3.31 2.91 Conductivity UMHOS/cm SM 2510 B AVG MAX MIN 250 250 250 AVG MAX MIN 230 230 229 AVG MAX MIN 233 233 233 Total Trihalomethanes UG/L EPA 502.2 THM AVG MAX MIN 47.1 52.3 40.8 AVG MAX MIN 44.6 52.3 37.6 AVG MAX MIN 54.7 59.1 52.0 Turbidity NTU SM 2130 B AVG MAX MIN 0.07 0.11 0.05 AVG MAX MIN 0.09 0.12 0.06 AVG MAX MIN 0.05 0.08 0.02 ----------- Edited December 15, 2007 by chatfouz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chatfouz Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 this is from austin city. for industrial. i assume its darn near the same for locals? what do yall think? Drinking Drinking Water Quality Report Parameter Units Method Cd Green WTP T1 Davis WTP T2,T2H Ullrich WTP T3 ----------------- ----- --------------- ----------- ----------- pH SU SM 4500-H B AVG MAX MIN 10.2 10.3 9.9 AVG MAX MIN 9.7 9.9 9.4 AVG MAX MIN 9.6 9.8 9.1 Total Alkalinity MG/L SM 2320 B AVG MAX MIN 50 64 42 AVG MAX MIN 48 56 43 AVG MAX MIN 54 60 47 Total Hardness MG/L SM 2340 C AVG MAX MIN 83 94 73 AVG MAX MIN 72 78 67 AVG MAX MIN 78 85 72 Total Solids MG/L SM 2540 B AVG MAX MIN 143 160 128 AVG MAX MIN 126 152 116 AVG MAX MIN 136 168 112 Total Chlorine Residual MG/L SM 4500-CL F AVG MAX MIN 2.13 2.55 1.80 AVG MAX MIN 2.29 2.75 2.00 AVG MAX MIN 2.18 2.50 1.85 Sulfate MG/L SM 4500-SO4 E AVG MAX MIN 32.0 32.0 32.0 AVG MAX MIN 30.5 32.6 28.4 AVG MAX MIN 42.0 42.0 42.0 Total Organic Carbon MG/L SM 5310 C AVG MAX MIN 2.16 2.62 1.87 AVG MAX MIN 2.94 3.09 2.8 AVG MAX MIN 3.10 3.31 2.91 Conductivity UMHOS/cm SM 2510 B AVG MAX MIN 250 250 250 AVG MAX MIN 230 230 229 AVG MAX MIN 233 233 233 Total Trihalomethanes UG/L EPA 502.2 THM AVG MAX MIN 47.1 52.3 40.8 AVG MAX MIN 44.6 52.3 37.6 AVG MAX MIN 54.7 59.1 52.0 Turbidity NTU SM 2130 B AVG MAX MIN 0.07 0.11 0.05 AVG MAX MIN 0.09 0.12 0.06 AVG MAX MIN 0.05 0.08 0.02 ----------- http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/water/downloads/wqr_oct07.pdf that one up there just didnt copy right... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedude Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 The water in Austin really varies from day to day as we've found. For instance, one of our clients is on a well directly tapped into the Edwards Aquifer. About 2 months ago a HUGE piece of earth fell into the aquifer (we're talking football field sized) and stirred up aeons of stuff. At that point, the incoming TDS was 999+ on the meter. To solve the problem we added several prefilters to the system and waited for the whole thing to calm down. Recently we learned that all DI resin is not created equal with certain formulas targeting certain molecules and different grades existing throughout. Going to a mixture of DI resins that all have a specific purpose really has improved our quality and eliminated strange diatom blooms. Silicate lab tested still came out high until our addition of filter chambers with specific silicate DI. If any of you are still interested in the topic at hand call up at the store and leave a message and I'd be happy to discuss it with you. Thanks, John PS: 0 TDS doesn't mean perfectly clean water Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcreonx Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 (edited) John, do you have the names of the brand of DI filters that target Silicate? It's about that time to change filters. Edited December 15, 2007 by xcreonx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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