myredracer wrote:
Laman wrote:
I am in the business of chemically maintaining irrigation lines preventing plugging from mineral and bacterial deposits. Just judging from your pictures and description of it being slimey I would hesitate a guess that it is some form of iron-fixing bacteria, which is not a health hazard but can play havoc on filtration systems. If it is a public health system they should be treating to prevent the formation of iron or hydrogen fixing bacteria.
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If it is iron bacteria, what I don't know is if your filters would get plugged up from it. That would not be good.
Like the irrigation guy says, iron bacteria can "play havoc" with your filtration systems and plumbing. They will definitely clog your filters. Just means the filters are doing what they should be doing. But I would discard them ASAP and clean out the filter holders as well.
