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How many of you look at your local water quality reports? I really did not pay attention to mine until I started burning through DI resin faster than normal and I have been also dealing with some issues. I figured I would put this out there, so other would have the information.
Chloramines are used to treat our water along with chlorine in the purification process, and without the proper filtration the chloramines basically cause mild ammonia after being processed by the carbon in our Ro systems. When the ammonia does not get processed out by the simple carbon block, it causes the TDS's to be higher before the water hits the DI resin and the resin works harder to filter out the impurities. which means that we burn through DI risen much faster.
From what I am reading, chloramines are ammonia bonded to chlorine and have a longer affects then just using chlorine alone in the treatment process. It makes sense for the local water supply to use. Just knowing this would help in the water reports and help in how and what measures we need to filter our water. The only places that the chloramines are not present are, private wells water that are not treated also water sources such as rivers, lakes and other fresh water sources. Very few drink the water out of the tap down here were we live. Our drinking water is from the St. John's River which flows south to north. The St John's water source is from the marshes/swamps mixed in with a little leached in seawater along with residual fertilizer, agriculture, and commercial then filtered through sand and then processed through our local water company.
Chloramines are used to treat our water along with chlorine in the purification process, and without the proper filtration the chloramines basically cause mild ammonia after being processed by the carbon in our Ro systems. When the ammonia does not get processed out by the simple carbon block, it causes the TDS's to be higher before the water hits the DI resin and the resin works harder to filter out the impurities. which means that we burn through DI risen much faster.
From what I am reading, chloramines are ammonia bonded to chlorine and have a longer affects then just using chlorine alone in the treatment process. It makes sense for the local water supply to use. Just knowing this would help in the water reports and help in how and what measures we need to filter our water. The only places that the chloramines are not present are, private wells water that are not treated also water sources such as rivers, lakes and other fresh water sources. Very few drink the water out of the tap down here were we live. Our drinking water is from the St. John's River which flows south to north. The St John's water source is from the marshes/swamps mixed in with a little leached in seawater along with residual fertilizer, agriculture, and commercial then filtered through sand and then processed through our local water company.
