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mine used to be more acidic, last test was 6.8 so it improved? just left it at that but did consider lime to improve it.
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Hilly
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I reckon the test will Vairy with the weather to an extent .
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what do you put this media in?
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- The North
it could do, ive improved drainage around the spring just dug a decent sized ditch(sometimes im sure surface water was getting in im small amounts under storm conditions)and sorted the lid for a proper job,
seems to have improved loads since maintaining these improvements.
Hilly
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Aye I just want to do the best I can , ain’t spent much on it in thirty years so if I can improve things all is good , clean water is essential at the end of the day , it has capacity to ruin health water and without that ain’t got nowt .
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ha ha,
agreed, i improved mine loads about 7/8 years ago luckily i got an old Yorkshire water clan water reservoir lid cheap!
i asked some there about the ph job amusingly they said you could theoretically put limestone in the spring and as it degraded it would improve the ph !
i was not aware there were media systems to improve it at the time.
organicguy
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Talked to a brewer recently who said that beer was brewed at Burton because of the water pH. It turns out that the beer with the best mouth feel is acidic, tested my IPA and it was 4.5, only mildly less acidic than my bacterial silage inoculant when brewed up!
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
My well is full of stones to raise water level to pipe that goes to storage tank, I think if I got some lime stone stones and swapped them it might do the trick !!
Av Gorritt
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We hauled several 8 wheeler loads of limestone waste to a trout fishery , and tipped them in the lake just beyond the inflow . Apparently trout prefer slightly alkaline water rather than the acid water that runs through the moorland peat . The waste was stripped overburden from a chalk quarry , not quite white enough for the paint pigment , or toothpaste or whatever . Best of all it was free .
happycows
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There’s quite a lot of evidence that drinking alkaline water can improve your health.
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Water with a pH lower than 7 is considered as acidic. A pH of 6 is ten times more acidic than that, and a pH of 5 is one hundred times that of 7, so there is a considerable increase in acidity with every point below neutral on the scale.
Standard pH correction unit with no backwash head PSPH
Standard pH correction unit with no backwash head. to neutralise acidic water and protect copper water tanks
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I think the main benefit of alkaline water, is when your plumbing is lead, which is extremely rare today. Otherwise there is virtually no evidence of health benefit.There’s quite a lot of evidence that drinking alkaline water can improve your health.
Standard pH correction unit with no backwash head PSPH
Standard pH correction unit with no backwash head. to neutralise acidic water and protect copper water tanks
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- Ledbury, Herefordshire
Should be easy enough to pass it through limestone, I imagine getting the flow rate might be trick at first, you might have to play with it. I'd do that before you run it through the UV.
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- Scottish Highlands
Can be quite a few acid-soluble nasties in the rocks underground, before it gets anywhere near pipework. That would be my concern from anything too low pH.
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- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
my spring water came through peat, so the acidity regulator as well as having the limestone dissolved, used to fill up with peat "mud" and had to be flushed out before refilling with the stone granules.There’s quite a lot of evidence that drinking alkaline water can improve your health.
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Water with a pH lower than 7 is considered as acidic. A pH of 6 is ten times more acidic than that, and a pH of 5 is one hundred times that of 7, so there is a considerable increase in acidity with every point below neutral on the scale.
Standard pH correction unit with no backwash head PSPH
Standard pH correction unit with no backwash head. to neutralise acidic water and protect copper water tanks
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- Ledbury, Herefordshire
Surely there's a way of putting an in-stream box containing limestone chippings downstream of the spring before you extract the water? seems a bit daft to put a hard to get at cylinder containing lime in the pipeline.
Systemic pH is very tightly regulated via acid/base homeostasis mechanisms via the kidneys in concert with respiration. The whole acidity or alkalinity of the ‘blood’ is snake oil salesman rubbish.
The negative effects of too acid or too alkaline are local level issues and generally have to be pretty extreme. If water becomes too acidic or alkaline, it ceases being water…
The negative effects of too acid or too alkaline are local level issues and generally have to be pretty extreme. If water becomes too acidic or alkaline, it ceases being water…
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I’ve never tested my water from the spring. What ph is acceptable for livestock drinking it ?
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
The people in the know think different.
Exfarmer
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If it is dissolving a whole lot of nasties before it gets near your pump, then it is a lot to late to be adding a bit of lime. The water will atill be carrying this and can only be cured by some very expensive filtration.
Of course if you have the slightest concern that such nasties are present, and they can be present in soft, acid, or hard limey water , then you should possibly consider finding an alternative source.
Water in the environment is naturally about 5.2 ph due to the presence of carbon dioxide, it becomes hard after passing through limestone and other materials, you are lucky to live in areas where you have this soft water, it costs many people hundreds of pounds a year to remove excessive calcium and magnesium from the system.
Beware the snake oil salesmen!