Well water advice

[chris410]

Originally Posted by 68428GOAT

Chris, do you have your filtered water come out the faucet or the smaller spout ?

It comes out of a small spout on the side.

[chris410]

Originally Posted by 68428GOAT

What brand system did you go with ? And did you retest after install ?

Thank you

Its a Repco Bubble up system for the Radon, not sure on the name of the reverse osmosis, and yes re had a retest

[chris410]

Originally Posted by GregW

Personally I would not worry about it. 27 ppb is a VERY small amount and IMHO not likely to harm you even if you were a fish. The EPA probably has been heavily lobbied by the treatment system suppliers to lower allowable standards so they can sell more treatment units. Similarly, unless you live 24/7/365 in a basement sealed tighter than a thermos bottle, Radon is another deliberately created problem to sell treatment systems.

In any case you can spend thousands to improve your perceived security without actually achieving any change.

While I do not dissagree with what your saying, the reverse osmosis is relatively cheap piece of mind with a benefit of Excellent tasting drinking water.

[GregW]

As Reverse osmosis also removes Iron, Manganese and Calcium it will provide much better drinking and cooking quality water. If on the whole houese it will go a long way to avoiding rust stains on the plumbing and calcium buildup in the washing machines. It was probably money well spent.

[Nonesuch]

Running the whole house on reverse osmosis requires a really big system, and would require a well capable of producing water at a much higher rate in order to keep up with demand, or a big high-pressure tank to store filtered water.

Also, reverse osmosis produces a LOT of waste water -- for every gallon of "clean" water produced, you're dumping 4-8 gallons of wastewater. Running this into your septic system will overwhelm it, dumping it in the garden is adding arsenic where you don't want it.