Residential well water treatment plan - would love a professional opinion
Hi all! Would really appreciate some experienced eyes giving my home water treatment plan a once-over. All feedback appreciated.
We bought a rural property and got a lab test for organic and inorganic levels. Organic test came back with some non-e. coli bacteria (which was addressed by shocking the well), but since this is a seasonal property, we wanted the peace of mind of a UV filter.
But the hardness (366ppm/21gpg) and TDS (494ppm/29gpg) are very high and there's enough iron content (0.32ppm) that exceeds what a lot of UV filter manufacturers list as the upper limits of what the filter can handle. Full water tests are below.
One bathroom, 2 adults, 2 kids, standard appliance needs (washing machine, dishwasher).
Water Treatment Plan
Stage 1: 10" Big Blue with a 5 micron sediment filter for turbidity and large particles
Stage 2: Clack WS1 with 10% crosslink resin, 32k grain
Stage 3: Another 10" Big Blue with a 5 micron sediment filter (in case of resin leak when backwashing)
Stage 4: Viqua VH200
Water Analysis Results
- Alkalinity (as CaCO3): 80 mg/L or 4.67 gpg
- Chloride: 6.0 mg/L or 0.35 gpg
- Colour: < 5 TCU
- Conductivity: 696
- Fluoride: 0.70 mg/L or 0.04 gpg
- Nitrate + Nitrite (as N): 0.25 mg/L or 0.01 gpg
- pH: 7.8 Units
- r-Silica (SiO2): 7.6 mg/L or 0.44 gpg
- Sulfate: 280 mg/L or 16.36 gpg
- Total Organic Carbon: 0.6 mg/L or 0.04 gpg
- Turbidity: 7.2 NTU
Calculated Parameters
- Hardness (as CaCO3): 366 mg/L or 21.38 gpg
- TDS (calc): 494 mg/L or 28.86 gpg
- Saturation pH (5°C): 7.6 Units
- Langelier Index (5°C): 0.15
Metals Analysis Results
- Aluminum: 0.002 mg/L or 0.00012 gpg
- Antimony: < 0.0001 mg/L or < 0.000006 gpg
- Arsenic: 0.001 mg/L or 0.00006 gpg
- Barium: 0.008 mg/L or 0.00047 gpg
- Boron: 0.015 mg/L or 0.00088 gpg
- Bromine: 0.02 mg/L or 0.00117 gpg
- Cadmium: < 0.00001 mg/L or < 0.0000006 gpg
- Calcium: 143 mg/L or 8.35 gpg
- Chromium: < 0.001 mg/L or < 0.00006 gpg
- Copper: 0.014 mg/L or 0.00082 gpg
- Iron: 0.32 mg/L or 0.01869 gpg
- Lead: 0.0001 mg/L or 0.000006 gpg
- Lithium: 0.0023 mg/L or 0.00013 gpg
- Magnesium: 2.13 mg/L or 0.12442 gpg
- Manganese: 0.008 mg/L or 0.00047 gpg
- Molybdenum: < 0.0001 mg/L or < 0.000006 gpg
- Nickel: < 0.001 mg/L or < 0.00006 gpg
- Phosphorous: < 0.02 mg/L or < 0.00117 gpg
- Potassium: 1.01 mg/L or 0.05900 gpg
- Selenium: < 0.001 mg/L or < 0.00006 gpg
- Sodium: 3.86 mg/L or 0.22547 gpg
- Strontium: 0.59 mg/L or 0.03446 gpg
- Thallium: < 0.0001 mg/L or < 0.000006 gpg
- Uranium: 0.0004 mg/L or 0.00002 gpg
- Vanadium: 0.008 mg/L or 0.00047 gpg
- Zinc: 0.016 mg/L or 0.00093 gpg
(I used AI to take the PDF test results and format the mg/L to gpg conversion. Sorry for any weirdness in how they display.)