Using bleach to clean water tanks
I would like to clean my water tanks and I have read on this site is to put bleach into my tank and leave overnight. I can't find where the bleach would be poured into as I have a closed system. Ca...
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vic46 wrote:
Have a look at using peroxide rather than chlorine bleach!
The comments regarding city water doing the job sure make sense to me!
Around 1985 we were getting ready to move to a different house. While I was visiting my doctor for yet another round of kidney stones I asked about moving off of San Jose water, which is ground water that is hard, meaning calcium. I was thinking of moving to where I could get San Francisco lake water.
He told me that the Hetch Hetchy water in San Francisco contains Giardia, at a very low rate, and that San Francisco does not remove it.
Drinking water should be filtered to 2 microns or less in order to remove the 2.5 micron E. Coli.
Federal drinking water standards do not require water to be completely free of a lot of things. It is legal to have a very small amount.
When was the last time you read the water quality report for your city water? Do you know what is in it? When visiting a campground I don't even know how to get a copy of the water quality report.
