Keeping fresh water tank bacteria-free
I'm confused about how to keep the water in the fresh water tank from picking up bacteria/viruses -- such as the Legionaire's Disease that sitting water can develop. I've seen the postings about ru...
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Attention all:
1. Bleach, Clorox, Pool Chlorine and the chlorine in the municipal water supply are all fundamentally the same thing.
2. The dose makes the poison- Drink straight out of the Clorox bottle, you're going to be one sick puppy. Drink chlorinated water out of the water faucet...do it all day, the dose is low enough.
3. Chlorine (Calcium or sodium hypochlorite) in the environment fairly rapidly breaks down into what is basically salt water (and dilute salt water at that)- so forget the idea that this is some sort of toxic, nuclear waste. "Fairly rapidly" does not mean it's ok to drink the stuff at high concentrations.
4. See number 2- the dose makes the poison- A lot of people put bleach in the tank and then dump it on the ground and see no adverse effects. Other times, you might kill a small patch of grass....A bunch of bleach is unhealthy for your septic tank (at the right dose, you kill bacteria)- then again, how much Clorox goes through washing machines- some folks do that on septic systems. You can probably let it run down the driveway and into the street and storm sewer- that's probably enough time for it to break down- but again- if too much hits the wrong school of fish where the storm drain hits the creek (extremely unlikely- but don't go dumping your fresh-tank flushing into your expensive fish tank either!)
5. Whenever you run the garden hose- you are dumping essentially the same "bleach" material out in the environment.
6. Did I say something about "the dose makes the poison"? Too much water with no beach at all is toxic at high doses too!
1. Bleach, Clorox, Pool Chlorine and the chlorine in the municipal water supply are all fundamentally the same thing.
2. The dose makes the poison- Drink straight out of the Clorox bottle, you're going to be one sick puppy. Drink chlorinated water out of the water faucet...do it all day, the dose is low enough.
3. Chlorine (Calcium or sodium hypochlorite) in the environment fairly rapidly breaks down into what is basically salt water (and dilute salt water at that)- so forget the idea that this is some sort of toxic, nuclear waste. "Fairly rapidly" does not mean it's ok to drink the stuff at high concentrations.
4. See number 2- the dose makes the poison- A lot of people put bleach in the tank and then dump it on the ground and see no adverse effects. Other times, you might kill a small patch of grass....A bunch of bleach is unhealthy for your septic tank (at the right dose, you kill bacteria)- then again, how much Clorox goes through washing machines- some folks do that on septic systems. You can probably let it run down the driveway and into the street and storm sewer- that's probably enough time for it to break down- but again- if too much hits the wrong school of fish where the storm drain hits the creek (extremely unlikely- but don't go dumping your fresh-tank flushing into your expensive fish tank either!)
5. Whenever you run the garden hose- you are dumping essentially the same "bleach" material out in the environment.
6. Did I say something about "the dose makes the poison"? Too much water with no beach at all is toxic at high doses too!
