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Is Your Water Contaminated With Iron?
If you have ever lived where iron is a problem with house water supply, then you know the consequences! The flavor, stains, and color problems are enough to make some people move to a different neighborhood.
Iron problems in water are in two different ionic forms. The first is ferrous iron, or iron(II) oxide, or FeO. Water out of the faucet containing FeO is clear and colorless. However, FeO rapidly oxidizes when exposed to air and forms ferric oxide, or Fe(III) oxide, or Fe2O3. This form of iron is reddish brown and is used as a cheap pigment to make red paint. This is the form of iron that causes the red and brown stain in the sink, toilet, and tub.
Ferric oxide’s ability to stain also appears in the laundry. Whites are no longer white and this problem is not easily corrected. It only takes a little iron, .3 parts per million, to cause these problems. Formerly, when we lived in the country and had a well, my white shirts gradually lost their whiteness, especially on the sleeves. The water was not colored nor bad tasting, but the laundry showed we had an iron problem. We finally solved this problem by adding borax to the laundry when whites were washed.
The staining is a bother, but also the iron leaves a disagreeable metallic taste to the water. Plus, you’ve probably noticed, the iron reacts with the tannin in tea, coffee, and alcohol, giving it an ugly gray to black appearance.
Here is a simple test to see what kind of iron (if any) you might have in your water. First, fill a clear glass with your suspected water and let it stand for fifteen to twenty minutes. If the water becomes clear as the iron settles to the bottom, you have ferric iron in your water. This means that the particles are large enough to filter out, about five microns or smaller.
If this is the case, a cartridge filter such as an activated carbon or charcoal filter will remove the iron and clear up the water. The particles are large enough to get caught in the filter leaving your water free from the ferric iron problems.
If, on the other hand, the particles remain suspended in the water, the cartridge filter will be unable to filter them out. The next step is to check in to an iron removal system or a water softener. This article cannot deal with these.
Filtering your drinking water with an activated charcoal cartridge filter has added bonuses. Besides iron, many other contaminants, some harmful, are also removed. These include heavy metals, pathogens and bacteria, chlorine and chlorine compounds, nitrates and nitrites, and many hydrocarbons.
Iron is needed in our systems but not in the form present in water contamination. Ferric oxide ruins flavoring and stains clothing and plumbing fixtures. Filtering your drinking water with a cartridge filter is a relatively inexpensive fix.
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