• rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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        15 hours ago

        Maybe they have it too, maybe it’s your delivery system. If all the pump plumbing is old lead solder then there’s your answer.

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            10 hours ago

            yeah, I don’t know much about it but maybe it’s like what happened in Flint, MI and when those people got put on an acidic/basic water source it made the lead leach out.

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        15 hours ago

        Bad luck? I have very high levels of mica sediment in my well that my immediate neighbors do not have. I asked my neighbors when I moved in and none of them had that problem. The well company said that they usually drill a new well.

        A few miles away a neighbor has such high radon that they need special filters that need to be disposed of by a professional company because it needs to be treated as a radiation hazard. I have no radon in my water.

        As someone else said for lead, if you have old soldered copper pipes, that could be your lead problem.

        A professional company can install water treatment to make your water safe. The well pump salesman showed off some of the crazy systems that they had done. One was a system of really large water tanks connected to a very large Reverse Osmosis system to deal with a well that had bad water quality.