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City Water vs Well Water?
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Posted by rjinga middle ga, zone 8 (My Page) on Mon, Mar 9, 09 at 10:14
| Is there any documentation or strong opinions about which would be best to use? of course the well water would be free but would require a $1,000 part to fix the pump. The city water would not be free, but my thinking is that we could use a lot of city water to equal $1,000 to fix the pump to use the FREE well water....
But is there any evidence that one over the other is better for plant growth and health? |
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RE: City Water vs Well Water?
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Hi rjinga
We are on well water and the quality is good, the only thing that I have heard about city water is that it can be heavily chlorinated and you should put it in buckets overnite so the chlorine bleeds out. I'm not sure what the chlorine does to plants(maybe raise ph?). Someone else on the forum will know.
Jake |
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| On this subject, Does anyone have a problem with rust from their well water and watering greenhouse plants. I have grown plants in a small gh and have noticed "rusty looking perilite". Does rusty water harm plants? |
RE: City Water vs Well Water?
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| I know several farmers who irrigate with city water and spend about $600 a month to do so. Plus it does have chlorine and other chemicals. I'd go with fixing the pump on the well. And in some places if they put in city water they shut down your well so you cannot go back to using it in the future. |
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| I would fix the well. I collect rain water in 55 gal barrels and use that water. I have tried the city water routine, and don't recommend it, if you have any other resource. |
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| How many barrels do you have? How much do you water with that. We are getting ready to set-up 4, 50ft.x32ft. greenhouses and don't want to put a well in the first year as we are trying to keep cost down. We will probaly only use 1-2 houses this year. |
RE: City Water vs Well Water?
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| you can remove chlorine from water no matter what it's source by adding vitamin c put some in a pan or bucket and run the water through it no more chlorine also left in the open in barrels or buckets chlorine gases out of the water. most water systems maintain very low levels of chlorine to begin with (less than l mg/ liter or 1ppm) typically around .5ppm in relatively clean systems. surface water systems may use higher levels of chlorine so ask you purveyor what kind of source or sources they use. |
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