Re: Do I need a water treatment thingy?
The previous owners of our house had installed a water softener/purifier, so we have no idea what the water would have been like without it. However, our friends moved in two houses away a few months before us and said they found the water sufficiently unpleasant that they felt they had to install such a system. I think it's all a matter of taste; I'm sure the water is healthy. Live with it for a while and see how you like it; that's the best suggestion I can think of.... We are considering adding a RO (reverse osmosis) system to the kitchen sink so as not to be drinking or cooking with 'straight' softened water; this can be done without putting in a water softener as well.
Here in upstate NY, where the typical hardness for buying a water softener (we've been told) is 9-12 grains of hardness. Ours is 26, and believe it or not our nearest neighbors have a hardness of 72; they need a knife and fork for their water! We have no choice but to run a softener for the 'health' of the plumbing, but I crawled under the sink and installed a separate faucet for water straight from the well for drinking and cooking with and going to the icemaker in the fridge as well. Periodically I have to use a file to get out the minerals that clog the spout, but we prefer the taste--and the absence of that trace of salt that the softener adds--for drinking.
And to the most recent post, I think it depends on what part of TV you're in. Where we are in Village of Belvedere (south of CR-466), yes, there are two different water supplies, one for irrigating and the other potable, on different lines of the water bill and costing different rates. I believe this is not the case everywhere in TV.
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