chlorine in water

[Roark]

Also might want to check with your municipal water supplier to see what type of agent they use. Chlorine will evaporate off if left in a large vessel overnight usually. This can be helped with a simple aeration device (air pump and air stone). The agitation also helps avoid the insect issues. Another type of oxidizer used is called chloramine. The reason it is used by some areas is because it is more stable than chlorine and thus will not evaporate off. The only way to remove it is by use of carbon as already mentioned, or with neutralizing agents such as are used in the aquarium/fish industry. Left to sit overnight, chloramine will not dissipate, with or without aeration.Illegal rain barrels? What'll they think of next? How'd ya like to go to the slammer on that one?That's gotta be a joke right?

 

[johnlee1933]

Welcome to FTT Roark. Are you a grower? If so you will find all kinds of help here. If you go to your profile and add your location it may be guys from your area will be able to give specific help.
The FAQ's at the top of the opening page has lots of good stuff for new growers.

John

 

[Chicken]

luckily im tapped into the florida aquifer, via, a well....

most bottled water in the stores comes out of this same, aquifer,

im glad chlorine isnt a problem for me,,,,city water is something ive never been around, but a friend i have on city water only uses the water for showers,

he cooks, makes tea, anything needing water, he uses 5 gallon bottled water for it,

and i had another friend who said when she stays the night atrelatives on city water,,, her daughter developed a yeast infection from bathing at thier house, where'as at thier house on well water, she had no infection,

but stay at the relatives, and it was guaranteed, her daughter would have issues,

city water = BAD ,

 

[BarG]

luckily im tapped into the florida aquifer, via, a well....

most bottled water in the stores comes out of this same, aquifer,

im glad chlorine isnt a problem for me,,,,city water is something ive never been around, but a friend i have on city water only uses the water for showers,

he cooks, makes tea, anything needing water, he uses 5 gallon bottled water for it,

and i had another friend who said when she stays the night atrelatives on city water,,, her daughter developed a yeast infection from bathing at thier house, where'as at thier house on well water, she had no infection,

but stay at the relatives, and it was guaranteed, her daughter would have issues,

city water = BAD ,

The best well water I ever had that well has cast iron pipes with a hole in em and it silted or sanded in! I"m on well water most of my life and drink it every day. You would have to pay me to drink bottled water.

 

[johnlee1933]

The best well water I ever had that well has cast iron pipes with a hole in em and it silted or sanded in! I"m on well water most of my life and drink it every day. You would have to pay me to drink bottled water.

Yep, same here. Hard as nails, high in iron, tastes great. I laugh like the devil when guys at the club ask me for a bottle of water. I pour them some out of my thermos and the say "Gee, that's good. Where'd you get it?" Barnum must be rolling in his grave.

John

 

[Roark]

Welcome to FTT Roark. Are you a grower? If so you will find all kinds of help here. If you go to your profile and add your location it may be guys from your area will be able to give specific help.The FAQ's at the top of the opening page has lots of good stuff for new growers.John

Aspiring. Presently we grow most all of our own food, raise chickens, ducks, fish and some rabbits from time to time. Had a script block running that wouldn't allow profile changes but fixed now. Read the FAQ's and a good bit more. I don't smoke but my wife and neighbors all do, so I figure to expand our regular local barter selections amongst our local tribe.

 

[workhorse_01]

The well water in FT.Myers where i grew up was bad,bad,bad sulfur but a hot waterhose full would shure quentch your thirst , or maybe make you sick enough that you didnt want anything else ! LOL

Yep, same here. Hard as nails, high in iron, tastes great. I laugh like the devil when guys at the club ask me for a bottle of water. I pour them some out of my thermos and the say "Gee, that's good. Where'd you get it?" Barnum must be rolling in his grave.

John

 

[Roark]

I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pa. and never realized til I left that water wasn't supposed to have texture. For whatever reason I seem to recall that the turbidity was at its worst in the winter months. You could draw a glass of water in the morning, place it on the counter, and when you got home from school - you still couldn't see through it. The really crazy part was that we used to camp in West Virginia a lot, and we used to make fun of their irony well water as tasting funny. Guess we were used to the heavy metal pollution from the old slag piles' leach that we drank, rather than the acid strip mine run-off that leached into theirs. Cracked me up when I moved to Baltimore and saw people buying bottled water. The stuff that comes out of their tap is probably cleaner than anything that Pepsi or Coke sells. I heard Lewis Black comment that Dassani (Coke's "water") is so crappy, they won't even use it to make Coke.

 

[Michibacy]

this is from my grow log

I assembled an activated carbon filter that screws directly onto the garden hose (I could really put any size hose on it though). I have a 40 mesh filter inside (stainless steel) and a packet of activated carbon that the water HAS to pass through in order to exit. It should in theory remove a decent portion of the chlorine in the water.

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[Roark]

Something else to consider when using carbon/charcoal filtration. Most of the carbon sold in and for water filters is made from burnt coconut shells and obviously comes from fairly underdeveloped third world points of origin. As the carbon gets processed a lot of dust results, which is typically washed with an acidic solution to reduce the fines and dust while handling. This of course also consumes a fair amount of the carbon's capacity to absorb impurities. This type of charcoal is typically sold as a crushed variety that is of varying sized pieces of irregular shape and does an adequate but somewhat limited job. There is a second type available that I have had very good results with, and for water filtration in particular, I would recommend it over the coconut derived type. This second variety is spherical in shape and is made from coal (anthracite I believe). Aside from being considerably harder than the alternative (which seems to result in considerably less fines and dust) the spherical shape resists the packing and channeling that is unavoidable with the other. Since the individual pieces are uniform and all round edged, the spaces between each piece remain more consistent, which means that the water doesn't end up creating favored paths from packed carbon creating restricted pathways. Also, since this particular type is not rinsed with the acid solution, its absorptive capacity is considerably greater. I've nothing but anecdotal evidence to support this, but my experience has been that it lasts roughly two to three times longer. Other than the channeling issue, the biggest problem with the use of carbon filtration is that it is constantly loosing capacity/effectiveness, and generally - people leave it in place well past the time when it is no longer having any effect. I do not have any affiliation with the company whose product that I use beyond being a customer, but the product that I referred to is made by SeaChem and I have used it with satisfactory results for many years in our tropical fish breeding hobby business (about 5,000 gallons). Anything that reduced maintenance and worked was always a welcome find for us, but of course it also cost 3 times as much as well, so there's no free lunch. In the end, it just lasts longer.