first time sanitize fresh water tanks
About to sanitize my tanks for the first time (we haven’t drunk the water from the tanks, we just use for cleaning and bathing and so on,, but we are about to go on a long trip with many dry days so w...
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Grit dog wrote:
Chlorine disappears basically 4 ways. Time, UV / air exposure, chemical neutralization or dilution.
Since the system is not really exposed to open air and sunlight, you can either wait, use dechlorination tabs (sodium sulphate, vitamin C , etc) or dilute it.
When disinfecting pipelines I use dechlorination tabs.
Small quantity like a Camper water tank, just fill and drain a couple times.
FWIW, google is your friend here. You can learn a lot about this with a little research.
i figure it was 50 ppm when sanitizing, i drained it all out, so if there’s less than a gallon left in my 80 gallon tank it would be diluted to 100:1, which is 0.5 ppm, probably about the same as municipal water. so i guess i’m done.
i guess if it tastes too much like chlorine in a week or so i’ll drain it one more time.
