Water test results, help me decifer?
I live in northern Ohio, and I had my water tested! My PH is 7 ppm, Total dissolved solids are 350, Iron is 3.5, and my Hardness is 12! Is there a chart or something that tells me that my PH is high or low, my Iron is low or High, blah blah blah.......... I just want to know where my water stands, and what needs fixed! Like I need a water softner, and Iron filter ............. can anybody tell me?
Answer:
The lab doing the testing should be able to provide that information.
This website may help:
http://www.engr.uga.edu/service/extensio...
pH 7 is exactly neutral actually.
duno about the others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hard_water...
says 12 is soft.
Your pH can't be in ppm. It's a number from 1-14. 1 being acid and 14 alkali. Tap water has a pH of 7 which is neutral.
ppm means parts per million.
Check out this web site:http://www.epa.gov/safewater/faq/faq.htm...
What you have there friend is well water. And by the dissolved solids and Iron I’d say it doesn’t taste too good and is probably a yellowish color.
Is the water delivered from a municipal well, community well or a well on your property?
The reason I ask is that Ohio is CHEMISTRY country. There are more chemists and chemistry jobs in that one small state than practically any other state in the union. What I am trying to say is the over the last 150 years, there has been a good deal of chemical contamination of the ground water in areas where large-scale chemical operations have been conducted. What you are tasting might not be detected by a simple water test.
However I would expect a municipal water supplier to monitor the water incompliance with the federal Clean Water Act, which should protect you from bad stuff from the ground water.
Your pH is perfectly neutral – no problem there. Yes a water softener will eliminate your dissolved solids, hard water and Iron (I suspect all that is naturally occurring in your area). IF those are your only issues then the water softener will make your water taste better. But that is a big IF. If there is something else in the water – specifically organic contaminates – you have a much bigger problem.
It is sad, but much of the ground water in the US is contaminated by organic chemicals. Many of these compounds were dumped in large quantities right into the soil (before people knew better or were restricted). Now unfortunately it is safest to assume water is contaminated, until you prove otherwise. Else risk being poisoned or mutated.
Here is a list of the 30 biggest pollution sites in your state. Unfortunately there were thousands of smaller generators in your fine state that were never reported, and will never be on the list. You just can’t know.
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/query...
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Answer:
The lab doing the testing should be able to provide that information.
This website may help:
http://www.engr.uga.edu/service/extensio...
pH 7 is exactly neutral actually.
duno about the others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hard_water...
says 12 is soft.
Your pH can't be in ppm. It's a number from 1-14. 1 being acid and 14 alkali. Tap water has a pH of 7 which is neutral.
ppm means parts per million.
Check out this web site:http://www.epa.gov/safewater/faq/faq.htm...
What you have there friend is well water. And by the dissolved solids and Iron I’d say it doesn’t taste too good and is probably a yellowish color.
Is the water delivered from a municipal well, community well or a well on your property?
The reason I ask is that Ohio is CHEMISTRY country. There are more chemists and chemistry jobs in that one small state than practically any other state in the union. What I am trying to say is the over the last 150 years, there has been a good deal of chemical contamination of the ground water in areas where large-scale chemical operations have been conducted. What you are tasting might not be detected by a simple water test.
However I would expect a municipal water supplier to monitor the water incompliance with the federal Clean Water Act, which should protect you from bad stuff from the ground water.
Your pH is perfectly neutral – no problem there. Yes a water softener will eliminate your dissolved solids, hard water and Iron (I suspect all that is naturally occurring in your area). IF those are your only issues then the water softener will make your water taste better. But that is a big IF. If there is something else in the water – specifically organic contaminates – you have a much bigger problem.
It is sad, but much of the ground water in the US is contaminated by organic chemicals. Many of these compounds were dumped in large quantities right into the soil (before people knew better or were restricted). Now unfortunately it is safest to assume water is contaminated, until you prove otherwise. Else risk being poisoned or mutated.
Here is a list of the 30 biggest pollution sites in your state. Unfortunately there were thousands of smaller generators in your fine state that were never reported, and will never be on the list. You just can’t know.
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/query...
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