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| Purifying Water; General purpose system? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 7 2005, 07:22 AM (82 Views) | |
| corky52 | May 7 2005, 07:22 AM Post #1 |
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I'm looking into putting together a system that will let me use water from all kinds of sources, mostly reading and research right now. Anybody have one that works well or know much about this area? I want to be able to pull water from lakes or streams if need be and make it safe to use and drink. From the reading I've done so far I looking at setting up a triple filter system with a UV section and adding chlorine to the tank. Any ideas? |
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| Little Kopit | May 7 2005, 07:35 AM Post #2 |
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Beddows does this. He's bound to have said how on his web page. |
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| olstuf | May 7 2005, 05:57 PM Post #3 |
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Corky, there are units (generally requiring electricity) that will do a pretty good job of filtering and "purifying" your water. A reverse osmosis unit made for under the sink in a house in addition to chlorinantion and filters to remove the chlorine after disinfection could be mounted in an RV. I think they are now making some smaller UV systems also but have no experience with them. UV only takes care of the point of disinfection and not point of use. There is no residual disinfection to ensure the lines, valves etc are "safe". That is one of the factors of residual chlorine. It is important to filter any ground water such as streams, ponds etc, to remove parasites and cysts. Filtering heavy metals such as mercury and arsenic, to name a couple of common ones, require some rather expensive filters. Alcohol is said to have some purification properties when mixed in the appropriate amounts!
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| corky52 | May 7 2005, 06:40 PM Post #4 |
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Bill, RO is out of the question in my application because of the slow conversion rate, high wastage and power costs. Current plan looks like a 5 micron sediment filter, a .9 micron ceramic bio/cysts filter before the tank/water input, then a UV sterilizer after the tank/water input for all water lines with a block carbon/ion exchange heavy metal remover in the lines to the hot water tank, sink and wash bowl. I'm planing on using an extra sediment filter ahead of a pump that would pull from external sources. From the pump I plan to go either to a bladder or into the tank, both through the two filters. I plan to add chlorine to the tank if the source doesn't have it. I know my layout sounds like overkill, but better safe than sorry. I figure to run a heavy bleach solution through the hoses and pump after using it on any uncontrolled sources to clean it. If I'm doing anything dumb or need to do something different, feel free to tell me, I'm only book learning on this stuff at this point and would rather not learn the hard way, if I can. |
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