City Water Filtering Setup

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George Jets

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The gallon price for drinking water at the Grocery Store just increased again to $1.30 a gallon.

Time to set up my own Charcoal Water Filtering Setup.

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Pretty good city water here, but the black charcoal water filters take out the odd treatment chemicals.

Noticeable taste different between charcoal filtered and non-filtered city water, tastes great.

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Nice little stock pile. Saved me $20.00 from my grocery bill for these 15 gallons. Saved lugging the gallons out of the grocery store, and dealing with the left over plastic jugs when emptied.

Filled up a white 5 gallon bucket with the filtered water, and it's crystal clear.

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That's cool and I'm sure it's better than tap water.

But you know the "drinking" water in those jugs just comes from a municipal water supply, right?
 

jos51700 said:
That's cool and I'm sure it's better than tap water.

But you know the "drinking" water in those jugs just comes from a municipal water supply, right?
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The "Spring Water" at the grocery stores has better flavor than the for sale "Drinking Water" that they have filtered from a municipal supply.

I like the Spring Water, think it still has the minerals in it yet.

And of course "Distilled Water" has no minerals in it. (that we use in our automotive cooling systems).

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My new frig has filtered water and ice in the door. It does take the chlorine out. I don't know about the fluoride but probably so. The bad thing, you have to buy a specific filter for it. It has a chip in it and the system doesn't work when the filter times out. I tried peeling the label and chip off and sticking it on a new cheaper filter. Nope, they got you by the nads there. It probably costs $10 a month to use.
 
toolmanmike said:
My new frig has filtered water and ice in the door. It does take the chlorine out. I don't know about the fluoride but probably so. The bad thing, you have to buy a specific filter for it. It has a chip in it and the system doesn't work when the filter times out. I tried peeling the label and chip off and sticking it on a new cheaper filter. Nope, they got you by the nads there. It probably costs $10 a month to use.
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Ours has that too, but rather quickly it got a moldy musty smell and taste so we stopped using it. Even with a new filter it was the same way.
 
The city water here where I live comes from a big, high in the mountains reservoir. Tastes great! We used to dread having to go to FL every fall to put power lines back up after a hurricane. We called those trips "The week or two of BAD coffee tours". The water in FL always had a smell and tasted like Sulphur. :eek:
 
When I bought the house I'm in about 30 some years ago, it had two deep water wells. At one time these wells were connected to the main house and a guest house. At some point county water came about and the wells were taken out of use. About ten years ago I finally got around to messing with one of the wells to see if I could use the water for my wife's big garden and a reflection pond. The well is about 100' feet deep. A 1hp well pump, lowered into a 5" well pipe with 1" PVC, has provided me with water that in 100 degree summer heat, is ice cold, crystal clear and no odor. I have never had it tested for potable use, but I bet at one time when it was connected to the house, it was used as drinking water. The pump draws little electricity and it sure does supplement my water bill. We don't drink (or try not to) the water from the tap, but through the refrigerator filtration system and bottled water.
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Ill never use the water supply from a fridge. More **** to go wrong and/or make you sick. You can use a Brita or similar and stick in fridge. Has a charcoal filter to help with taste and odors. Lori uses it for her water. Im a tap guy.
 
4spdragtop said:
@George Jets , Casey what does your municipality use for disinfection residual?
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Don't know.

The city water system has been working good for the last year with no boil water notices.

When they open up the lines to do work on them, then they send out boil water notices until the water tests back to acceptable standards.


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There used to be a company called NSA that carried activated charcoal water filters in which the granular activated carbon was impregnated (their words, not mine) with silver to prevent the growth of bacteria in the charcoal. Their spiel was preventing botulism growth in the charcoal. They worked pretty well on the hard clinch river tap water here, but were expensive at the time. I imagine that with current silver prices, those would be astronomical now.
 
George Jets said:
The "Spring Water" at the grocery stores has better flavor than the for sale "Drinking Water" that they have filtered from a municipal supply.

I like the Spring Water, think it still has the minerals in it yet.

And of course "Distilled Water" has no minerals in it. (that we use in our automotive cooling systems).

Thank You


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Depending on your location, that spring water may just be municipal water as well. I live outside Kansas City, have springs under my house (my sump pump runs every ten minutes) and even in the street in front of my house, and there are springs all over near me, but the Sam's Club nearest me, about twenty miles away, sells "spring water" and the pallets were clearly labeled as "source: KCMO municipal water supply". I know this because I worked there stocking it! Springs in KC aren't so common.

A lot of people don't realize that when they like the taste of bottled water, it's often the plastic that they're tasting. For me Aquafina tastes great, but I do think the plastic is part of it. That's where garden hose water gets it's flavor.
JDMopar said:
The city water here where I live comes from a big, high in the mountains reservoir. Tastes great! We used to dread having to go to FL every fall to put power lines back up after a hurricane. We called those trips "The week or two of BAD coffee tours". The water in FL always had a smell and tasted like Sulphur. :eek:
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There are places that have sulfur in the water in central Missouri. Kool aid ain't fixing that!! That stuff is nasty.

I used a Zero Water filter and it did taste truly clean (not as clean as the river water in the Rockies where I grew up, but close). I saw a video where the Zero Water filter could filter food coloring out of water! I almost wonder if the Zero brand has water softener salts in it. Maybe it works on sulfur too
 
Garrett Ellison said:
Looks like the NSA brand is still in business.
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These AO Smith Charcoal Filters that I use are NSF approved, tested and certified.

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Like everything else, they are going up in price. Last time I bought a 2 pack they were like $7.00.


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JDMopar said:
The city water here where I live comes from a big, high in the mountains reservoir. Tastes great! We used to dread having to go to FL every fall to put power lines back up after a hurricane. We called those trips "The week or two of BAD coffee tours". The water in FL always had a smell and tasted like Sulphur. :eek:
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Yeah, the well water in Florida has that stinky sulfur smell to it, just nasty.

Stayed in a home in SE Palm Bay back in 2003 that had a well, water so nasty you could hardly stand taking a shower in it. Definitely would not drink it.

I feel very fortunate that I have a good city water supply here in the more developed area of Palm Bay, that was a huge consideration in buying this place here.

And of this past Summer now on City Sewer too, big project getting it done and finishing out with the landscaping work too.

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Ended up with a nice extended parking area when it was all said and done.


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