Local water quality (north of denver burbs)

dbkick

Well-Known Member

• Mar 20, 2012

• #1

Has anyone experienced a spike in ppm in tap water recently? my tap quadrupled over night from a nice 70 ppm to 280 ppm . I'm also having difficulties in hydro such as no growth in newly rooted clones to straight up killing one fair sized plant.A thread about chloramine comes to mind now. Anyone seeing anything like this?

 

TruenoAE86coupe

Moderator

• Mar 20, 2012

• #2

While it has been a while now, but i have had swings so bad you can taste it in your drinking water from one day to the next. For this reason alone i run an RO system, it is impossible to diagnose issues when you truly do not know what is changing in your water. I figure the $100 investment was well worth it in the headaches i have saved myself.

 

dbkick

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• Mar 20, 2012

• #3

TruenoAE86coupe said:

While it has been a while now, but i have had swings so bad you can taste it in your drinking water from one day to the next. For this reason alone i run an RO system, it is impossible to diagnose issues when you truly do not know what is changing in your water. I figure the $100 investment was well worth it in the headaches i have saved myself.

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yes I do see a RO filter in my future, I've been using a small boy which certainly isn't RO but it def took care of chlorine which was my main concern.

 

TruenoAE86coupe

Moderator

• Mar 20, 2012

• #4

Pretty sure this is the one i have, but certainly the site to get them at, any questions i am very familiar with these systems.
http://www.purewaterclub.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=88_61_28&products_id=391

 

dbkick

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• Mar 20, 2012

• #5

my god 50 gallons a day sounds painfully slow, will be time to automate top off.

 

TruenoAE86coupe

Moderator

• Mar 20, 2012

• #6

i have never used more than half a 55 gallon barrel in a day even when i was doing hydro.
they have 150gpd for a few dollars more, and if your not commercial thats a lot of water....

 

dbkick

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• Mar 20, 2012

• #7

TruenoAE86coupe said:

i have never used more than half a 55 gallon barrel in a day even when i was doing hydro.
they have 150gpd for a few dollars more, and if your not commercial thats a lot of water....

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Yeah, I'm just saying at like a gallon a minute I thought the small boy was slow.

 

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KiefSweat

Member

• Mar 22, 2012

• #8

you don't need the R/O just the Cholornie Snatcher Filter.
Cholramine's a bitch will kill all your organics.

 

ColdArmySoldier

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• Mar 22, 2012

• #9

I bubble air through my water for 24+ hours to get rid of chlorine (Boulder County says they use chlorine, not chloramine). This pushes more oxygen into solution and pushes the already unstable chlorine out of solution as well agitating the water to speed up the process. I don't use a R/O filter since I am fortunate with <80 ppm water.

 

dbkick

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• Mar 22, 2012

• #10

yes thanks for all the input people, but the water spiked and hasn't dropped back to the 70 ppm that it was. I suppose contacting the city water dept to see just whats in the water is in order.

 

dbkick

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• Mar 22, 2012

• #11

KiefSweat said:

you don't need the R/O just the Cholornie Snatcher Filter.
Cholramine's a bitch will kill all your organics.

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but Its been fine in my organic soil, in hydro I or whatever is in the water has been killing my shit. I think I'll go RO.afterthought: I do have those most of the time :/ ) I run my water supply for organics thru a small boy, I think its possibly time to change out the cartridges but that's 50 bux and a RO system mentioned above I believe, wasn't much more.

 

dbkick

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• Mar 23, 2012

• #12

chloramine or chlorine I can smell this shit in straight tap. 280 ppm. this is unacceptable.