If you use multiple treatment systems for your well or city water, you have probably wondered whether their order of installation affects the final quality of your treated water. The answer is yes, the order of your treatment systems can be a factor in determining the effectiveness of your systems. One customer using an iron … Continue reading How to configure a Neutralizer into your water treatment system
Salt-free water conditioners can be a great alternative to water softeners. Though they don't physically remove hardness from your water, they do an excellent job at preventing hardness minerals from forming scale deposits, and they do it without the use of sodium. This means you'll need no post-filtration and will experience no salty tastes nor … Continue reading Salt Free Water Conditioner
We recently received a letter from a concerned mother experiencing cloudy water in her home. She was a bit worried about the possible health effects of turbid water and put off by the idea of bathing her kids in water cloudy, sediment-filled water. She had called her local specialists but was not excited about their … Continue reading Treating Cloudy (Turbid) Water Without Chemicals
Earlier this week we explained how to determine your pipe sizes by using the string method. Today we went ahead and made a short complementary video for you visual learners out there. We plan to make more of these videos for all sorts of water treatment procedures, so we'd love to hear your feedback … Continue reading Instructional Video: Determining Pipe Size with the String Method
Knowing your pipes' sizes is crucial to selecting or installing the right water treatment system for your well and plumbing system. Unfortunately, the sea of pipe sizes can be a bit tricky to navigate, due to the fact that pipe sizes don't actually reflect their true dimensions. The reason for this – for those interested … Continue reading Pipe Sizes
Saltwater infiltration of well water systems is not uncommon for well water users near the sea or near coastal rivers. While not the most harmful type of water contamination, brackish water can have a salty, disagreeable taste and cause scale buildup in fixtures and appliances due to high concentrations of sodium, metals, and other contaminants … Continue reading Brackish Water Treatment
Have you ever noticed strange metallic smells in your water? Experienced buildup on faucets and fixtures? Gotten sick from your drinking water? We sincerely hope the answer to all three of those questions is “no” – particularly that last one. If not, your water may be contaminated with iron and manganese, or worse, iron or … Continue reading Treating Iron, Manganese, and Coliform Bacteria in Well Water
One reader recently wrote to us wondering why the foul sulfur odor in his water seemed to disappear after shock chlorination, only to reappear about a week later. This a common question with a rather simple answer: Foul odors in water tend to be caused by iron and sulfur bacteria, which expel foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide … Continue reading Removing Hydrogen Sulfide with a Chlorination System
We often get questions about iron filter media here at Clean Water Systems. It seems many people are overwhelmed by the breadth of options available when shopping for an iron filter, and with all sorts of tanks, valves, and filter media available, it's not hard to see why. That's why we wanted to take some … Continue reading What is the Difference Between Filox, MangOX, Pyrolox, Pro-OX, and Greensand Iron Filter Media?
One question that comes up often is “How do I know how many gallons per minute my well pump is pumping?” This is crucial information when purchasing or installing water treatment systems, as they all come in different sizes and have different requirements based on your flow rate. For example, say your well pump has … Continue reading Water Flow Rate
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