What is your city water TDS level?

[the other tang]

I read mine for the first time last week and it was 635ppm, whats yours? I think that is pretty high, but I want to see how it compares to other parts of the country. If you post please add your location if its not under your avatar.

 

[marduc]

wow, yeah that seems really high compared to what I see in Tampa.

I just moved my tank and RO/DI unit from one side of town to the other, I used to get readings of 200-250 ppm, now it runs 350ish.

 

[yraveh]

125 in north miami beach

 

[the other tang]

Thanks guys I know the water is bad here I just don't know how bad. Maybe AZdesertrat can comment on what is standard. I'd like to get some more info from out west, up east etc to see what is low and high.

 

[danskim]

Baltimore is around 150ppm. At least my house.

 

[AZDesertRat]

Mine was 852 last Saturday when I checked it.
250 is about the national average. The lucky stiffs in the Atlanta area enjoy numbers below 50 from what I have seen. Here in the Phoenix metro area we are served by the Colorado and Salt River systems. Three guesses as to where the Salt River got its name and the first two don't count!

 

[jjmcat]

160 in Tulsa OK.

 

[Slickbaby]

125 in denver

 

[Boomer]

56.5 TDS, Lake Superior, Duluth, MN :lol:

 

[AZDesertRat]

Theres one in every crowd! Boomer you stink!

 

[PatrickJ]

250 in New Orleans area

 

[Boomer]

Yah Rat but the knotheads bumped the pH way to 9.1 ;( using soda ash, Sodium Hydroxide, for scale control. It use to be pH 7.1 And I have not checked for a while, I gave all my stuff to Randy. Maybe on of these days I'll ask Jim from thefilterguys. I ran tanks for 30 years right out of the tap with just a dechloraminator. We were like the first city to use chloramines. Started it back in the late 70's. I forgot it was also 100.4 uS

 

[Billybeau1]

120 ppm in NW Indiana (Chicago water) from Lake Michigan)

Yeh Rat...... Boomers a real riot :blown:

 

[Boomer]

That high TDS is proably from all the dead fish :lol: And as you move East it gets worse.

Here is a short Assay
http://www.ci.duluth.mn.us/city/comfortsystems07/WhatsNew/Duluth 2005 CCR.pdf


Your read and weep page You could spend an hr here learing about water, Ok our WATER
http://www.duluthstreams.org/understanding/param_ec.html#realdata


Some really cool stuff here, we know water here, we do not play games :lol:

http://www.duluthstreams.org/understanding/stormgraphs.html

 

[Billybeau1]

They don't call it "Superior" for nothing !

 

[drummereef]

Last time I checked it was in the 250 range in St. Louis. I tend to avoid it and drink from my RO. I leave the DI for the fishies.

 

[Grunt007]

300 here, eastern PA.

 

[wzero]

420, Shanghai China.

 

[dkh0331]

The Allegheny River P water north of Pittsburgh isn't too terrible. 165.

 

[Mr31415]

In South Africa - Centurion I have about 200.