Just got off the phone with a worker from a local water district who wishes to remain unnamed.
What he had to say was very disturbing. He sais most of the local water districts are reporting very high amounts of heavy metals. They two leading they way are copper and lead. This guy actually knew a little about our hobby. He also spoke of the high amounts of Barium, extremely high numbers to be exact. With the amounts they are seeing he sais it's not hard to have traces make it through our RODI systems no matter how many filters you add. I asked him why Glenn was not seeing issues. He said certain areas of Roseville were the very last communities to go on ground water. And are most likely using newer full aquifers. While the rest of us are getting water from very old next to dry DEEP water wells. Water that's been down there a very long time absorbing minerals.
So I reached out to some people who have been in this hobby for a long time and have some expertise in this ie: Randy Holmes Farley.
What was recommended was to aggressively attack the heavy metals since they cause the most damage. And he agreed with something I heard from somebody else. Alternate between GFO and Rowaphos. Since Rowaphos is aluminum based it will remove the Barium and after 3 weeks use gfo as it will remove the aluminum while adding some barium. I am also going to try and get my hands on a new product by two little fishes called heavy metal remover.
I did just 2 days ago add new poly filter (the brand not type). And new rowaphos.
I also plan on contacting Triton to see about shipping several samples if water over to Germany to have it run through the ICP since the us operation isn't up and running yet. It appears it will be about $40 per sample. If we can get 7 to 10 of us to go together we might be able to save on shipping. But according to them we will be able to see exactly what's there and how much. They did say in Germany they constantly battle copper and barium with well water and that they find it making it through RODI systems all the time.
PM me if interested in sending your sample to Triton with me.
What he had to say was very disturbing. He sais most of the local water districts are reporting very high amounts of heavy metals. They two leading they way are copper and lead. This guy actually knew a little about our hobby. He also spoke of the high amounts of Barium, extremely high numbers to be exact. With the amounts they are seeing he sais it's not hard to have traces make it through our RODI systems no matter how many filters you add. I asked him why Glenn was not seeing issues. He said certain areas of Roseville were the very last communities to go on ground water. And are most likely using newer full aquifers. While the rest of us are getting water from very old next to dry DEEP water wells. Water that's been down there a very long time absorbing minerals.
So I reached out to some people who have been in this hobby for a long time and have some expertise in this ie: Randy Holmes Farley.
What was recommended was to aggressively attack the heavy metals since they cause the most damage. And he agreed with something I heard from somebody else. Alternate between GFO and Rowaphos. Since Rowaphos is aluminum based it will remove the Barium and after 3 weeks use gfo as it will remove the aluminum while adding some barium. I am also going to try and get my hands on a new product by two little fishes called heavy metal remover.
I did just 2 days ago add new poly filter (the brand not type). And new rowaphos.
I also plan on contacting Triton to see about shipping several samples if water over to Germany to have it run through the ICP since the us operation isn't up and running yet. It appears it will be about $40 per sample. If we can get 7 to 10 of us to go together we might be able to save on shipping. But according to them we will be able to see exactly what's there and how much. They did say in Germany they constantly battle copper and barium with well water and that they find it making it through RODI systems all the time.
PM me if interested in sending your sample to Triton with me.
about to order it.
