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- From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
- Subject: Re: Water in San Francisco
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.151703.12792@i88.isc.com>
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- Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:17:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.100542.13362@news.nd.edu> ulick@bernini.helios.nd.edu (Ulick Stafford) writes:
- >In general surface waters will be soft but high in chlorine and organics, so
- >should be boiled if chlorine is detectable. Ground waters will be hard,
- >but usually low in organics and chlorine - but then you may have a shitty
- >aquifer. I mean for municipal ground water - which is usually treated to
- >remove evils like iron. Water quality when you have your own well may
- >be much worse.
-
- And then deep ground waters will be only moderately hard, but will contain
- higher levels of unstable heavy metals, to add a little "sparkle"...
- Our city is in the process of adding some shallow wells (less than 200ft)
- to mix with the older deep wells, which have radium levels higher than
- the EPA allows. When they're done, instead of 16gr hardness, we'll have
- 24... Oh, well.
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- Jonathan E. Quist INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
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