Anyone have any luck with the UV type. I was talking a county health guy and his opinion was that when the water is not flowing the bacteria can grow. I just don’t know.
Anyone use a chlorine injection system?
Anyone have any luck with the UV type. I was talking a county health guy and his opinion was that when the water is not flowing the bacteria can grow. I just don’t know.
Anyone use a chlorine injection system?
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I had several installed in houses I'd built years ago. Never heard of any problems, and they don't make the water taste bad. The water treatment guy preferred them.
Andy
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Try these people...
http://www.aquaultraviolet.com/products.php
What the health department was referring to is that UV light does not provide any residual disinfection, which is not a problem if the water is properly disinfected as it flows past the UV light. When UV light first became available for home use, there were a lot of problems, mostly due to the fact that the units did not have built in monitoring for strength of the light (as the lamps get weaker, the UV light is less effective). If you decide to use UV, be sure the unit is NSF approved. Here's a link with more info http://www.des.state.nh.us/factsheets/ws/ws-4-5.htm
Chlorine works well, and produces a residual which will continue to work even after the water has passed through the chlorinator. Of course, to some people the taste and odor of chlorine may be objectionable. And, you do have to be sure that you keep chlorine in the feeder. Chlorine may be more reliable if there are suspended solids in the water, but with either disinfection system, if there are suspended solids, the water should be filtered before disinfection.
if you use a chlorine injection system, you can pass the water thru a backwashing carbon filter to eliminate the chlorine taste
Have a look at http://www.uvpure.com Ron's an old co-worker and friend of mine. If I were on well water, I'd have one of these.