[geefree]

where does your water come from at that tds? ................bottom of a river?

[Spruce]

where does your water come from at that tds? ................bottom of a river?

An extract from the website of Hartlepool Water PLC.

Our groundwater network of eighteen boreholes are scattered as far away as Darlington to the West connected to our treatment works and storage tanks near Dalton Piercy. We can store up to 48 million litres of water ready for supply on our sites; enough for over 36 hours supply which helps us to meet the peaks in demand from customers. We also run around ten emergency generators to keep the electricity supplies available to keep the water flowing. Around 700km of water mains ranging in size from 700mm to 50mm in diameter brings water to every business and household in the town of Hartlepool and surrounding villages.

As developers create new housing, water mains are laid to extend our service to new customers and likewise, those areas of housing that are demolished also need the system disconnecting and abandoning.

We operate three high specification treatment plants to create industrial grade water for some of our largest industrial customers. These multi-million pound plants produce almost pure water to meet very tight quality specification so that the water is ready to go straight into the industrial processes for generation of steam and to create the various products.

Our water in Teesside has a tds of 115 and is supplied by Kelder Dam near Newcastle by Northumbrian water. The supply for the whole area bypasses Hartlepool who produce their own.

There was a guy on here a couple of years ago by the name of CNC (Justin) from Hartlepool who kept us 'informed' with regard to the perils of producing pure from his r/o. Not only was he 'fighting' the high tds of his water, but also had supply problems of pressure and flow due to pipe calcification.
He also had problems with trying to heat his van over that very cold winter of several years ago. Everything he did seemed to go wrong.
He hasn't been on here for a long time now. I occassional think of his trials and wonder if he is still around.

[Perfect Windows]

Hi spruce, I run 2 DI vessels after RO , just bought new filters for RO and I can produce about 600 lts before it starts to creep up. I won't let it go over 005 ppm. It's 485 ppm before RO

Until I read this, I thought we had it bad with 280ppm!

VIn

[Panorama]

Ye, Hartlepool , tough place to live, even the waters hard lol. Justin is still going strong , I was chatting to him a couple of months back