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I can't find the forum where I read that...I was all over the web reading on back-flush discharge. Others questioned his statement on how frequently he was replenishing the salt...literally buying it by the pallet. If it we me, I might roll the dice on having a new well drilled and hope they...

I misunderstood about municipal water being a choice. I misread your initial thread. Funny, I never thought of softener discharge as grey water, since it is basically well water with salt added. But now I go back and read about it, I see I was wrong. Interesting that liberal states like...

Man, that has GOT to create a major mosquito problem. Call the government and tell them that a punch of Tea Party Patriots posing as Latinos have been handing out Constitutions and NOW they are dumping wash water near your property. I guarantee same-day response.

What I find strange is that there are jurisdictions that PROHIBIT you from putting it into your septic tank. I did not research to see if you can just dump it or if you are required to do something else silly (and costly) to remediate it. Heck, I grew up in a time when grey water was just...

Perhaps they are just trying to save their heater from scaling but don't want to soften all those tens of thousands of gallons of water a restaurant must use.

Man, lots of us are escaping the rat race. Good for you! I left Vienna (Fairfax County) after having lived there since 1963. All of a sudden there were people around me who had ridden a gravy train that I never knew existed, and they would basically run you over with it. It used to be such a...

I might be able to scrape together the bucks when my Psychic Hotline subscription expires.

Before I installed my softener I read tons of articles, mostly to see what my technology options were. I don’t have a lot of room in my house and was searching for the smallest solution (in terms of physical size) that I could find that would remove the minerals from my water, not just suspend...

That's interesting. Sure puts them at a survival disadvantage, huh? I keep forgetting to email the University lab that did my water test to tell me what specific minerals are making my water hard...I suspect a large part of it is calcium and may be plant-beneficial. I have two outside...

This made me smile. I hear it from lots of guys. Yeh, I'm single. Too much alone time is bad for anyone, but the tolerable limits seem to vary by gender. I think most women need to be raised in the rural (semi-isolated) life in order to tolerate it as adults, while many men seem to be...

I got very lucky when I moved to this area. My employer (outside of D.C.) was forcing people to work from home so they could get out from under expensive leases. So when they did that, many of us took advantage and headed for the hills. And at the time, my boss was in an office about 50...

Here is a link to the Whirlpool page where the downloadable manuals are (I think you have on of these units). Each unit has its own manual that will tell you how to program that specific unit to remediate various levels of iron, but you gotta know how much iron you have in the first place, just...

Thanks, Speedbump. Now that I have my water softener installed, I'm moving on to other things on my list. After the pump backup, I'm next thinking of installing a rainwater collection system for my garage roof runoff, since we're coming up on gardening season.

I've been considering adding a manual pump to my existing well to cover for long-term power outages. I have not done a LOT of research, but have seen units that tie into the existing system as a manual backup to the electric pump; that is, there is no outside outlet that you might fill a...

Interesting stuff. I've heard of drilling at different depths to get proper yield/flow, but didn't think about the quality varying so much. On acre seems like a pretty small area to have 3 wells on. Were they all in use or were they separate attempts at the same time to get something...

It also explains how you can get different quality wells that are drilled on the same property (not that nature cares about where Man chooses to draw his artificial lines of ownership demarcation). When people replace depleted wells (done at least once on my property before I purchased it)...

Yeh, I discovered that later when making the conversion to set up the softener, which remediates up to 33 grains. And discovering this totally surprised me. First, my hardness was WAY out of range with where the rest of the 50 samples were. I'm thinking that the average was around 180. Not...

When the test results were ready for the participants in the county's program, we were given the opportunity to pick them up in person and attend a presentation of the test results for the entire group of roughly 50 participants. About 20 of us chose to do so. My hardness of 225 was a major...

I honestly do not recall...it was several years ago. And I only paid a fraction of the cost. The test was through UVA's own lab, and was highly subsidized by that university and by my county (or maybe by the state). As I said, these tests give governments lots of data points for water...

I did not notice the link to the article in your last post. I just now read it. Thanks for that! More data is always better. There seem to be varying opinions as to how much sodium is actually carried into softened drinking water. Fortunately, my blood pressure is almost dangerously low (so...