all right my fish have been acting a little stressed lately.all parameters are good.ammonia-0 nitrite-0 nitrate-20-but my pH went from 7.2 to 8.1-8.2 .so i called the city and requested a water brake down. hers what they sent me.fluoride-1.2 ppm/nitrate-0.65ppm/arsenic-1.81ppb/lead-6.0ppb/ copper-0.15ppm/barium-0.03ppm/mercury-0.01ppb/sodium-4.9ppm/sulfate-12.3ppm/radon-471pci/l]alpha emitters-3.2[pci/l]combined radium-0.63[pci/l]. dose any one know what these readings mean?i just got the runaround from the city. telling me every thing was with in the epa guidelines.
just got my citys water quality report
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MMM LEAD MURCURY RADON AND COMBINED RADIUM can I have a glass please?? damn and they want you to drink that?? murcury builds up in your system (body) and I think lead does too or atleast contributes to going insane.
You should run a test on your water at home. Tells you more then that would about what the ph is doing. Could be the change in weather or if it rained. Many things can change the chemistry in your water. Best thing you could do is buy a reverse osmosis unit. filter out all the crap.
You should run a test on your water at home. Tells you more then that would about what the ph is doing. Could be the change in weather or if it rained. Many things can change the chemistry in your water. Best thing you could do is buy a reverse osmosis unit. filter out all the crap.
JAK;499813; said:
Hee hee hee....There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
Here are some badly needed definitions that I am sure the water people were clueless about (hence the run around). It is also hard to get anyone to talk intelegently about chemistry.
ppm = parts per million = #/1,000,000
ppb = parts per billion = #/1,000,000,000
pci/l = Pico curies per liter (not sure if I spelled that right) = #/1,000,000,000,000 per liter
Radon = an inert Nobel gas that is formed by the decay of uranium. It is radioactive for around three days to a week. 471 Pico curies per liter is extremely high. The atmospheric radon is around 15 Pico curies. Your source water runs through a lot of granite. Granite does not filter the water; the water runs through many small cracks. Granite also is "uranium ore".
What the report didn't include was the allowable fecal matter in the report. Yes, there are EPA allowances for poo in your drinking water. OH WAIT, it is right there listed as nitrate and sulfate. The reason they are both the highest measurements is because thousands of septic tanks have been draining into the source water for decades if not centuries. High levels can also be caused by farm land/pastures run off contributing to the source water.
Lead and Arsenic are non issues in your water.
Fluoride is really interesting stuff. Not because it is in tooth paste. I am talking in terms of Oxidation Reduction Potential. When you add chlorine to a green swimming pool, a mildewy shower, a dirty drive way, or dirty clothes in the laundry....the fierce cleaning action of chlorine is due to its Oxidation Reduction Potential. Now find a Periodical Chart of the Elements. The Oxidation Reduction Potential increases as you go to the right and upwards. (The column to the very right is the Nobel Gasses which are inert.) You will find Chlorine in the upper right corner. You will also find that there is only one element that is higher in Oxidation Reduction Potential and that is Fluorine. Fluorine and Chlorine in their elemental forms are binary gasses. What we think of as Chlorine are chemical compounds of Chlorine. The Chlorine is actually Chloride ions within those compounds. We just call the compounds chlorine for whatever reason. Fluorine and Fluoride are still used separately but where you see Fluoride, it still means Fluorine. And 1.2ppm of chlorine will kill every fish in your tank. What do you think that much Fluorine will do?
fluoride-1.2 ppm .ok for you bad for fish
nitrate-0.65ppm .just poo
arsenic-1.81ppb .who cares
lead-6.0ppb .not enough to care
copper-0.15ppm very bad levels for invertebrates, will kill micro-algae
barium-0.03ppm not sure. Barium is a heavy metal. Radioactive barium is used in Radiology for x-rays
mercury-0.01ppb Thanks to land fills, paints, alkaline batteries, thermostats, etc. everyone has to deal with mercury in their water. Yours is almost non-existent.
sodium-4.9ppm big deal. Salt is Sodium Chloride
sulfate-12.3ppm from poo
radon-471pci/l will contribute to radon gas in your house especially during showers.
alpha emitters-3.2[pci/l] not sure
combined radium-0.63[pci/l] . not enough to worry about.
CHOMPERS;500465; said:.And 1.2ppm of chlorine will kill every fish in your tank. What do you think that much Fluorine will do?Will it give them teeth of steel?
If he's from Minn. why is his city spec'ing this in litres? checked mine and it's in gallons...
just curious.
Dr Joe
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just curious.
Dr Joe
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Dr Joe;503346; said:
Might be a regional/scientific thing. For a while, Florida decided that all government engineering projects must be in metric units. One bridge was built in Tampa and then a reversal on the decision was made. I do not know which one it is but civil engineers call it the Metric Bridge.
Potts050;503273; said:CHOMPERS;500465; said:.And 1.2ppm of chlorine will kill every fish in your tank. What do you think that much Fluorine will do?Will it give them teeth of steel?
No man, it will give them CHOMPERS of steel... ...get with the program
CHOMPERS;503461; said:Potts050;503273; said:CHOMPERS;500465; said:.And 1.2ppm of chlorine will kill every fish in your tank. What do you think that much Fluorine will do?
No man, it will give them CHOMPERS of steel... ...get with the program
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