Rain water was cleaner back then and shouldn't contain many impurities unless you live in an industrial area or have lots of traffic driving past.
Tap water has Nitrites, should I add a filter to my sink?
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Bruce Leyland-Jones
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Not likely, unless your water sits in a seawge pipe before reaching you.
No...there are chemical filters and chemical/biological filters. Nitrates and nitrites are way too tiny to be remove mechanically, by physical filter media.
There are chemical processes that can remove those substances, but these are complex enough to negate their use in domestic settings and are thus the responsibility of water companies.
Bruce Leyland-Jones
Fish Aficionado
Actually, there was way, way more particulate matter from factory chimneys and home fires in the atmosphere, especially coal home fires. It was found that allowing water to stand awhile removed even these.
In some parts of the UK, please!
In a recent dry spell, we were informed that our water supply would change to 50% lake water, 50% borehole water, instead of a 75/25% ratio. During that period, I noticed my tap water acquired 2ppm of nitrate. I contacted the water board to inform them of this, just out of interest and they told me that this was likely due to a series of broken pipes they were currently working on. That said, I got a visit three days later, with guys wielding test tubes, who confirmed my readings and they returned a week later to show zero readings.
Mustangfreak
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Well........my area has recently had a huge boom in red tide and lots of fish kills from a leak at a water processing plant, wonder if that could have affected the city water as well.Not likely, unless your water sits in a seawge pipe before reaching you.
UPDATED April 25, 2022: A Rundown of the Piney Point Wastewater Leak
Polluted wastewater at an abandoned phosphate mine in Manatee County was pumped into Tampa Bay to stop a leak.
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu
Mustangfreak
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How would I prevent mosquitos using the water butt as a breeding ground though? Or other pests for that matter as well.
Bruce Leyland-Jones
Fish Aficionado
Sounds likely.Well........my area has recently had a huge boom in red tide and lots of fish kills from a leak at a water processing plant, wonder if that could have affected the city water as well.
UPDATED April 25, 2022: A Rundown of the Piney Point Wastewater Leak
Polluted wastewater at an abandoned phosphate mine in Manatee County was pumped into Tampa Bay to stop a leak.
Back in the day, such critters would be considered to be valuable live food, especially mosquito larvae.
You could get a water butt with a lid.
Mustangfreak
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Wouldn't a lid prevent the plants from getting light?
Mustangfreak
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I have two poly 55 gallon drums at work that we don't use or need. But they were sometimes used to store off-spec product (Either 50% Urea liquid, or Calcium-Nitrate liquid fertilizer), could I get these cleaned up enough to be used for a butt?
Bruce Leyland-Jones
Fish Aficionado
You don't need plants.
In a tank, plants do take up nitrates, but these aren't necessary in a water butt, where you're just going to let the water sit awhile.
Provided they were totally cleaned! (I'm guessing, having forgotten most of my chemistry degree, you could test the water, using your test kit).
GL with that!
In Australia safe for drinking water standards for Nitrite are 100mg/l. Bit less for Nitrates (I think 50, but can't remember for sure).
Which is like 100ppm and 50ppm
Bruce Leyland-Jones
Fish Aficionado
That explains so, so much! I often wondered why you guys were usually stark, raving bonkers!
It's the water! (Also explains your penchant for the tinny).Don't tell anyone, but: water has nothing on food. Some of the healthy leafy veggies have levels up to 1400mg/kgThat explains so, so much! I often wondered why you guys were usually stark, raving bonkers!
The maximum allowed in the UK are:
Ammonia 0.5 ppm
Nitrite 0.5 ppm
Nitrate 50 ppm on the nitrate-NO3 scale*
* We need to be careful comparing maximum allowed nitrate in different countries as there are two scales used to measure nitrate.
The UK uses the scale nitrate-NO3, the same as our test kits. Other countries use the scale nitrate-N.
50 ppm nitrate NO3 = 11.3 ppm nitrate-N
Ammonia 0.5 ppm
Nitrite 0.5 ppm
Nitrate 50 ppm on the nitrate-NO3 scale*
* We need to be careful comparing maximum allowed nitrate in different countries as there are two scales used to measure nitrate.
The UK uses the scale nitrate-NO3, the same as our test kits. Other countries use the scale nitrate-N.
50 ppm nitrate NO3 = 11.3 ppm nitrate-N
Mustangfreak
New Member
Got an update! I contacted my county about the water containing nitrites, they came out and sampled the line and said it was either 0.269mg/L of Nitrite, or 0.0269mg/L. I looked up the conversion to ppm and its simple, its either 0.269 ppm or 0.0269ppm. So how am I getting 5+ out of my tap?? I began to wonder if it was the little screw on piece at the end of the faucet, so I took it off and ran the water at full flow for a few seconds, then sampled the water. No Nitrites. I put the screw on piece back on, sample that, boom, 5ppm+ Nitrites!
Glad to have found the source, and glad to know that no one drinks from it either.
Glad to have found the source, and glad to know that no one drinks from it either.
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