Effective Well Maintenance
Water Quality Products
April 2009
By Neil Mansuy
Proper well maintenance is essential to ensure maximum efficiency while keeping costs to a minimum
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Groundwater Awareness
Water Quality Products
November 2006
By Marianne R. MetzgerMarianne R. Metzger
Protection and proper maintenance of private wells is essential to a safe water supply
Private Chlorine Disinfection
Water Quality Products
October 2004
By Bill Fehrman
Private systems, while not federally regulated, are vulnerable to biological contamination from sewage, improper well construction and poor-quality water sources.
Chromium: Getting the Facts Straight
Water Quality Products
April 2004
By Wendi Hope Bishop, WQP Staff
Chromium is most toxic in the man-made form produced in the manufacturing of paint pigments, metal coatings, cement, rubber, glass and other materials.
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Evaluating Your Chlorination System
Water Quality Products
September 2003
Carl Hammonds, The Hammonds Companies
This article will focus on three popular forms of chlorine: gas, sodium hypochlorite and dry calcium hypochlorite tablets. Each has advantages and disadvantages relative to cost, convenience, effectiveness, storage and regulatory issues. A look at the pros and cons of each can answer many questions about what's right for your application.
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Ozone Treatment for Residential Well Water
Water Quality Products
June 2003
Myrle Melligan, Triple O Systems, Inc.
Your customers not only are expecting to have enough water supplied from their water source, but they also demand that it is of superior quality. Ozone's technology coupled with such treatment as filters or softeners can fulfill this expectation. Ozone does not need to be complicated in order to treat small water systems.
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The Practical Use of Ozone for the Well Water Application
Water Quality Products
July 2002
Roger Nathanson, Ozone Pure Water, Inc.
We?ll discuss the well ozone water treatment application. Each application is a potential business in itself, which means greater revenue and profit. All that is necessary from you is the motivation to boldly go where you have not gone before.
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Chlorination and Its Alternatives
Water Quality Products
March 2002
By Anne Penkal and Nadia Abboud, Severn Trent Services, Inc.
Purification of drinking water containing microbiological contamination requires some form of disinfection treatment to kill or render microbiological organisms harmless.
Of the available disinfection treatment methods for private water systems, chlorination in the most commonly used.
Well Water Treatment: Ozone Helps Solve Water Problems at Bassi Ranch
Water Quality Products
September 2000
Ted Rich
An analysis of the raw well water (Table 1) shows a pH of 7.9 and 30 color units with >20 mg/L hydrogen sulfide, 5.6 mg/L iron and 0.6 mg/L manganese. Odor was detected at 10 threshold odor number (TON), indicative of the high hydrogen sulfide levels. To meet these water problems head-on, the homeowners formed the Bassi Ranch Mutual Water Co. in 1992.
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