chlorine in city water

[CoralWealth]

How much is a lot of chlorine in city water?

I am just wondering and also any opinions on when to change the carbon chlorine filters? I just want to make sure I am not letting this in my water. I do make a lot of water as my total system is over 600g so top off is a good amount and I do a 40g water change everyweek.

I have attached a link to my cities water. Page 7-8 are where the results are.

https://lehighcountyauthority.org/wp-content/uploads/ALD.pdf

Chlorate (ppb) 143 was the average with a range of 53 – 270


I appreciate all help

 

[Aardvark1134]

1) Check the public information from your water company.
2) Be more worried about the chloramine than the chlorine
3) How hard is your water?

If you just have normal chlorine simply letting your filtered water sit for a day or 2 with and air stone will get most chlorine out of it while your salt is getting mixed in good. Now if you have chloramine thats some nasty stuff and takes more effort to get rid of.

 

[CoralWealth]

I couldnt see it saying chloramine anywhere in the report, just chlorine.

My water is really hard, it was 12 grains per gallon on the report

 

[Aardvark1134]

RODI don't tend to work well on really hard water. You should strongly consider running through a water softner 1st.

Sadly around here we have this nonsense going on
"Chloramine: Chloramine is a disinfectant Louisville Water uses to help keep your drinking water safe and bacteria-free. "

 

[Agent_Orange]

I would be more concerned with fertilizer run-off, if that's a problem in your area. Using rainwater doesn't have that problem/setting it out in the sun if the container is outside should gas off smokey pollution if it's covered from dew at night or further rainfall if it's full. If you wanted to mineralize the rainwater, you could create a separate container, at the bottom containing 1/2"-1" gravel that looks like road gravel sold at lowe's, the larger size of the Country something, not pea, but mix in pea as well, and a bit of sand, all as a support for clay soil, so you want a clean looking bed of rock with soil all mixed in. If it can get air because of the rocks (and using a bubbler and covering with a thin layer of regular sand), the light tan clay will turn black, and that water would be good to use for whatever, especially if there are a few plants in it to help the soil too, but you're looking for the tan clay soil to turn black.

But if you have a container with a lot of plants, and it gets good light, you can use city water to remove the fertilizer after about a month, because the plant will digest the fertilizer and possibly and chemicals/fluoride but it would need to be very heavily planted

 

[Sorcha2]

How much is a lot of chlorine in city water?

I am just wondering and also any opinions on when to change the carbon chlorine filters? I just want to make sure I am not letting this in my water. I do make a lot of water as my total system is over 600g so top off is a good amount and I do a 40g water change everyweek.

I have attached a link to my cities water. Page 7-8 are where the results are.

https://lehighcountyauthority.org/wp-content/uploads/ALD.pdf

Chlorate (ppb) 143 was the average with a range of 53 – 270


I appreciate all help

Don't ever trust city water they tend to have to change what they put in due to flooding and such. If you are using an RODI filter which unfortunately you should be you can get the RODI beads that change color when it is time to change them. I change the other filters about every other time but everytime might not be a bad idea in my opinion. I just do less due to cost.

 

[Opus]

How much is a lot of chlorine in city water?

I am just wondering and also any opinions on when to change the carbon chlorine filters? I just want to make sure I am not letting this in my water. I do make a lot of water as my total system is over 600g so top off is a good amount and I do a 40g water change everyweek.

I have attached a link to my cities water. Page 7-8 are where the results are.

https://lehighcountyauthority.org/wp-content/uploads/ALD.pdf

Chlorate (ppb) 143 was the average with a range of 53 – 270


I appreciate all help

You can buy a chlorine test kit and test the water before the RO membrane to see if there is chlorine getting thru the carbon filter. You could keep doing this until you figure out an approximate time frame on how long a carbon filter lasts for your situation. The normal rule is switch out the pre-filters every 6 months. I personally run 1 sediment filter and 2 carbon filters before the RO membrane. If chlorine is making it past the carbon filters it will destroy your RO membrane and you will start to see a rise in tds after the RO membrane. I wouldn't worry about the hardness of your water, it isn't that bad. Mine is really bad and my membrane still lasts for 4 or 5 years. With the amount of water you use, you might want to look at the higher capacity carbon blocks like the KX MatriKX CTO Plus.