You just need to taste it....

Taste
 

Thank you for your recommendation. This July we did.

That is why I am getting it tested by a independant lab. Not a water salesperson or the local water authority.

With a Cattle pasture in back of our home. Drainage ponds everywhere, fertilizer and who knows what that runs off the streets and down into the Aguifers. Puplic water has to be safe. Chlorine kills everything.
I believe in test don't guess.

It's a CarGuy thing. Verify don't assume.

Very smart on your part. Think I'll do the same.

You guys are right about testing for the nasties and crawlies, but even if there are none (and there won't be none) it would still taste terrible.

Actually don't mind the taste from the refrigerator filter.

Giardia and others
 

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov AKA Beaver Fever! - NO Snide rude JOKES Please

This is why the Nasty chlorine taste, Even in the Finger lakes where we have a 300 ft deep ice cold 16 mile long class AAA drinking water lake that supplies all of Syacuse and surrounding areas.

Skaneateles was just told it has to better treat its water without chlorine.

There are so many Dairy Farms and Golf Courses and People with Lawn Treatments. It all runs down hill folks.

As a side note -More waste oil runs into our Oceans every single day from drainage run offs, leaking cars equipment etc. Than the Valdez Oil Spill did in one day in Alaska.

One Gallon of used motor oil can contaminate one million gallons of fresh drinking water. So that leaking Golf Cart, Tractor, Truck drips. It rains it washes off to TV street drains and thats not the end of the story?

Ditto. :agree: The old 'trust but verify' thing of the cold war.

Allied signal contaminated Lake Ontario. The heavy development all around Skaneateles Lake didn't help there. Owasco lake is landlocked and that helps it. I haven't been on Cayuga lake or Oneida lake for some time.
and Cayuga Lakes

Prison
 

They built a prison on a old farm in Moravia at the end of Owasco. They dump the " Treated" sewage right into a fresh water drinking lake! And when it rains hard the plant by passes treatments.

The water there has been on alert for years and beach swim warnings.

Ontario is OK Allied Chemical runined Onondaga Lake. It has become a marvelous study of how with care and $$$$$$$ of treatment a dead lake can come back alive again. VERY SLOW! but returning. Will Salmom ever swim in it again as in the past???

Yes developement has hurt many areas. In TV I am concerned about the water tables lowering and our homes going into sink holes. But that is another topic

Thanks for the reply.

Regards- Herv

Carguy...what makes me think you are a worrier?? Maybe because I am one too...or used to be.

Look around you here and you will see folks who are walking upright and drink the water everyday. If it was making them sick, there would be a huge outcry. I think that the filtered water from the refrigerator is fine and if you want to be sure add a little alcohol. That should get rid of any microscopic critters.

Water is easy to have tested, but don't rely on the guys trying to sell you something.

Good Morning Herve!:wave:

back water flush
 

Back water flush is housed outside and returned to ground water.

Correct
 

Yep its mostly a three part problem Gracie, Me thinks my posts read worse than my concerns. How else can I get to 8000 like you.

Part one- My dermatologists and countless meds from City water. Took a trip to the Adirondacks MTS for a week this Fall all problems cleared up. Was the water.

Visited TV. Fell in Love with the people area and homes. Did not fall in Love with the water. Problems returned.

Part three- Have spent way to many hours in Earth science environmental class's and field trips. My students have to learn the cause and effect of a Automobile and its carbon foot print from Well to Wheels and then recycled back.

After visiting countless water treatment plants and sewage treatment plants I recieved Wayyyyyyyy to many visuals and information..

It will all be fine! I just have to start drinking Jack Daniels again! but thats another post.

See you in January- Merry Christmas All

Car.

Each of my kids and grandkids went through a stage of being vegetarians because the idea of eating an animal was so abhorrant to them at the time. Schools try to educate but sometimes they sensitize in areas that are not good for visual pictures for your whole life. Some of us are way more visual than others and we really don't need to see the xxxx floating in what will become drinking water.

Nature has it's own processes of restoring water to clean...or fairly clean and now we are doing the job for nature.

It is just like surgery, not everyone wants or needs to know the visual, even though our lives depend on it.

So everyone who just read what I wrote above take deep breaths and look at all the folks in golf carts driving around not sick or dead from the water. And if I have ruined drinking water for the rest of your lives, please choose something healthy to drink.

The water we drink has been recycled for.......ever. AND we are still here, now thanks to the processes of modern science.

Good morning all. I really do just love all of you.

The water we drink has been recycled for.......ever. AND we are still here, now thanks to the processes of modern science.

Good morning all. I really do just love all of you.[/QUOTE]

Now if you can only find that recycled fountain of youth Gracei we will be all set .

Have a good day which I know you will .Were off to the stress pitt.

Herv

We are new here and are also wondering if a filter system for the water is what we should get. Would love to hear from all.