Water tests

I have no clue.

 

No valve on the discharge line, and I would bet my clean:dirty ratio is somewhere along the lines of 1:5. Max.

 

What does the valve do for you? When you say "check to see if it has changed", what does that mean?

 

We have a rain tax Its really a fee grab but its caculated on the surface area. We have a virgin 28 acres of land my kids use it for hunting the property taxes are 377.90 year the rain tax is 670.00 every 3 months .

Where we live is on 2.1 acres and the tax is 12.90 every 3 months Every body in this area has it if you own property you get thr rain tax

Beware this is a Gov test program and is going to spread nationally as soon as we quit rasing hell so they can work out the problems. I for one at age 65 am not going to quit I m tired of all these hidden and stupid taxes that generate Millions of money for Gov to waste.

 

Most of the RO systems on the market have a pure:flush ratio of 1:4 (OK, the commercial-grade membranes I sell give you that, anyway).

It seems to me that if it gets much above that, your prefilters aren't doing their jobs and the membrane is fouled.

Incidentally, I can beat the prices at Marni's recommended store, and even include a new flow restriction at no additional charge (especially important if you're upgrading)!

 

I did not mean the prefilters were clogged, Marni. That would simply slow down all water getting past them as you stated. I have seen people go to quite coarse sediment filters to get them cheaper, or not really install them correctly - i.e., not doing their jobs - so the sediment fouls the membrane, and the pure:flush ratio goes to hell in a handbasket.

 

DI has no flush water. Culligan should have rental units, but I'd make sure to put an inline PPM meter in place.

Is the 25,000 gallons what you use, or what you water with? In any case, you'd cut your water usage by 66%.

 

I use DI to water the plants at work. I have Dends, hateful intergenerics, NOID phals, dirt plants, cacti, and succulents, mostly in windowsills. There is a lab on the 10th floor where i can get DI or even milipure waters. I haven't measured the TDS or asked about the purity. I just know its got to be better than the tap water. I have not noticed any problems with it at all.

 

DI works like this. There are two resins: one absorbs positively charged ions, the other absorbs negatively charged ions. Water comes through the beds, and leaves at 0 ppm. The pH is usually completely wacky, because there are no ions, but if you have a "pure water" fertilizer, then the pH isn't a problem. This is one of the problems that people have - they use regular fertilizer, and end up with a toxic pH for their plants. The other more damaging problem is one of equilibrium. The water will go from 0 ppm to higher ppm than your tap water (because the ions are now chemically favored to be in the tap water due to concentration).

If you have an inline ppm, you can verify that the resin is still working.

I have no clue about the prices that Culligan charges. They do commercial type operations, so can provide a large amount of water, and will "recharge" the resin.

I have purchased a very small system used off craigslist that I can recharge myself - it is used for washing cars.
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But for your purpose is virtually worthless, since it would amount to like 4 days worth of water.

 

Be careful of Culligan: a customer of mine got an RO unit rated at 24 gpd from them. They wanted $93/month for 3 years.

Fortunately, she was able to send it back during the 3-month trial period, and bought a 100 gpd unit with all sorts of extra stuff for under $225.