Well Water Purification Systems
*price based on up to a 5 bath 1 inch water main.
| TechnoPure-2000 Well Water System Vs. Water Softeners | ||
|---|---|---|
| Benefits | TechnoPure | Salt Softener |
| Plumbing Protection | Yes | Yes |
| Cleaner Brighter Whites | Yes | Yes |
| Less Soap | Yes | Yes |
| Iron Removal | Yes | Partial |
| Manganese Removal | Yed | Partial |
| Chlorine Removal | Yes | No |
| Residual Protection | Yes | No |
| Removal of Tastes | Yes | No |
| Removal of Smells | Yes | No |
| Bacterial Kill | Yes | No |
| Sodium Discharge | No | Yes |
| Cost Comparison To Maintain Per Year | ||
| Service contract | $195 | $480 |
| Estimated Life | 8 years | 3-8 Years |
| Re-beddable | Yes | No |
| Water usage per month | 160 | 300 |
A full life time warranty on parts and consumables is guaranteed with the purchase of an annual service maintenance contract of $195 city / $295 well per year.
Taste and Odor
Symptoms: While not causing any physical harm this problem is an irritating inconvenience, to say the least.
Cause: Tastes and Odors in your water come from many things including chlorine, decaying organic matter and dissolved gases or minerals. The presence of hydrogen sulfide, which has a distinct rotten egg like smell, can also be a cause.
Treatment: Common tastes and odors are eradicated when they travel through the carbon filter in our home systems. The presence of hydrogen sulfide is taken away after TechnoPure's® oxidation as it travels through TechnoPure's tank filled with birm media.
Iron
Symptoms: Iron is an easy problem to detect; iron and manganese in your water leaves stains everywhere from sinks and tubs to clothing and linens. It can also cause scale in pipes and make your water look and smell terrible.
Cause: While there are different types of iron (bacterial, clear water, and red water). Iron is dissolved during the passing of ground water through iron-bearing rocks. It can also be caused, usually temporarily, by water sitting in iron pipes.
Treatment: TechnoPure's systems use a patented oxidation method which makes the iron larger and more filterable. The iron is then easily filtered away as it travels through TechnoPure's birm tank.
Chemicals and Contaminants
Symptoms: Chemicals are generally only detectable using professional testing
Cause: Chemicals and other contaminants are both man-made and natural. See the EPA chart for causes.
Treatment: Depending on type and amount of contaminant there are many different treatments. TechnoPure's Oxidation process makes these contaminants more filterable removing more chemicals then anyone else. For TechnoPure's system's ability to filter these chemicals out see the Proven Guidelines chart.
Hard Water
Symptoms: This is an easy one to spot. Hard water leaves a ring in bathtubs and sinks comprised of minerals and soap. It also collects on shower walls, clings to hair and clogs skin pores. The effects of hard water lead to a difficult time cleaning. Overtime hard water will cause clogging of pipes, reduce the efficiency of hot water heaters, and shorten the life of your appliances.
Cause: Hard water is created when water absorbs calcium and magnesium as it travels through rock formations found in our environment.
Treatment: TechnoPure's electronic water conditioning system softens water without the use of salt or magnets. Beneficial minerals, such as calcium, are left in the water and converted to their soft soluble form. These healthy minerals are now available to your body leaving you feeling very clean, giving your skin and hair a more youthful look and feel!
Acidic Water
Symptoms: Acid water cannot be detected by the physical properties of water (feel or odor). The problem of having acid water can be seen as a blue-green stain on plumbing fixtures. It also corrodes chrome faucets, copper fittings, and pipes. One of our TechnoPure professionals can test for the degree of acidity in your home's water.
Cause: Acid water is caused when water passes through hard rock and is not able to absorb any minerals or other materials. The absence of minerals leaves water in a "hungry state" as it travels into your home, resulting in water that eats away everything in its path.
Treatment: TechnoPure's oxidation / ionization process naturally raise the waters pH level. In extreme cases TechnoPure's system would require the installation of a third neutralizer tank.
Chlorine
Symptoms: Chlorine in your home's water can be detected largely by taste and odor. Over time it will corrode your water pipes and plumbing fixtures. On a larger scale chlorine and the byproducts it forms have been directly linked as a cause of cancer.
Cause: This is largely found in your water due to the fact that chlorine is used as a treatment in your water supply.
Treatment: TechnoPure's carbon filter eliminates all chlorine in your water. TechnoPure's unique oxidization chambers keep all the cleaning properties of chlorine without the use or side effects of chlorine while removing any chlorine in your water left from municipalities or any other source.
Turbidity
Symptoms: Turbidity is quite simply dirty water caused by dirt or other suspended materials in your water. Turbidity can be detected by a visual inspection. Turbid water is more then just unpleasant to look at; it can be detrimental to your small water-bearing openings and cause deterioration of valves, seats, and washers.
Cause: Turbidity is caused by run-off of dirt, sand, and other organic materials into water supplies and wells.
Treatment: TechnoPure removes turbidity by flocculating (making larger) the suspended materials and trapping it in the media tanks, leaving the water clean and dirt free.
Man-Made Water Problems
Today's technology provides benefits in many areas of everyday life. At times this comes at the cost of our environment. Our water is extremely susceptible to toxins and pollutants left behind from improper disposal of chemicals and compounds that have been created in recent years.
Fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides are washed into our streams, rivers, lakes, and wells by rainwater. Petrochemical spills and leaks absorb into our underground aquifers.
THE CHLORINE USED TO TREAT OUR CITIES' WATER SUPPLIES AND THE BYPRODUCTS FORMED HAVE BEEN DIRECTLY LINKED AS A CAUSE OF CANCER.
Natural Water Problems
| EPA Water Contaminant Chart | ||
|---|---|---|
| Contaminant | Possible Effect | Source |
| Coliform and other bacteria | Gastro enteric infection, dysentery, typhoid fever, and cholera | human and animal fecal matter |
| Cryptosporidium | Cryptosporidiosis (diarrhea illness) | human and animal fecal matter |
| Giardia lambia | Gastro enteric disease | human and animal fecal matter |
| Legionella | Legionnaire's disease | natural waters, some water heaters |
| Turbidity | Interferes with disinfection, filtration | erosion, soil runoff, and discharges |
| Asbestos | Cancer | asbestos cement in water systems |
| Arsenic | Cancer, skin and nervous system toxicity | pesticide, industrial waste, smelting |
| Barium | Circulatory system effects | geological |
| Cadmium | Kidney effects | epoxy sealants, spent coal, pigments |
| Chlorine | Cancer | city water treatment |
| Fluoride | Skeletal and dental damage | fluoridated water, fertilizer, aluminum |
| Lead | Kidney and nervous system damage | lead pipe and lead-based solder |
| Mercury | Kidney and nervous system disorders | crop runoff, batteries |
| Nitrate | Blue baby syndrome (methemoglobinemia) | fertilizer, sewage, animal waste |
| Selenium | Liver damage | smelting, coal/oil combustion |
| Benzene | Cancer | fuel, drugs, paint, pesticides |
| Carbon Tetrachloride | Cancer | cleaning solvents |
| Endrin | Liver, kidney, and heart damage | pesticide on insects, rodents, and birds |
| Lindane | Liver, kidney, nervous, immune and circulatory system damage | insecticide on cattle, cotton, and soybeans |
| Methoxychlor | Growth, liver, kidney, nerve effects | insecticide for fruits, livestock, and pets |
| Radon | Cancer | decay of radionuclide |
| Total Trihalomethanes | Cancer | surface water treated with chlorine |
| Toxaphene | Cancer | insecticide on cattle, cotton, and soybeans |
| Tetrachloroethylene | Cancer | dry cleaning materials waste, solvents |
| Vinyl Chloride | Cancer | PVC pipe; solvent breakdown |
In addition to man-made problems that occur, there are many contaminants that are picked up in the natural hydrological cycle of water.
The types of byproducts and chemicals absorbed into our water vary depending on environment and surroundings. Water that passes through shale, limestone, and other soft rocks will dissolve and carry calcium and magnesium from those rocks into our homes. This, in turn, causes hard water problems. Water that travels through granite, marble and other extremely hard rock areas absorbs nothing and remains acidic. Acidic water then begins to eat away plumbing pipes and fixtures when it enters our homes.
Water that passes through iron-bearing rock dissolves and absorbs the iron and this causes rust stains and other problems in our homes.
This picture illustrates how the environment interacts to form the hydrological cycle and shows many of the places contaminants come from
The water cycle - technically known as the hydrologic or hydrological cycle - is the continuous circulation of water within the Earth's hydrosphere, and is driven by solar radiation. This includes the atmosphere, land, surface water and groundwater.
As water moves through the cycle, it changes state between liquid, solid, and gas phases. Water moves from compartment to compartment, such as from river to ocean, by the physical processes of evaporation, precipitation, infiltration, runoff, and subsurface flow.
It is this runoff that washes chemicals from the ground into our aquifers.
The Facts About Electronic Water Softening
In the simplest of terms the incoming minerals have a charge imparted on them when passing through the electric filed created by the TECHNOPURE-1000/2000. This charge prevents the calcium ions from coming in contact with each other the same way to north ends of a magnet repel one another. This repulsion prevents the calcium from building up into scale. Although it does not reduce the concentration of calcium it does increase the solubility. The apparent effects are the same as water that has a reduced calcium concentration.
The fact of the matter is, electronic water conditioners are de-scaling tools. This is their primary job in the water treatment industry. During the process, energy is induced to the minerals which pass through the electronic water conditioner. As water flows through it, the hard water minerals take on a different crystalline structure form when precipitated. The water develops an increased solubility factor which helps it absorb more of whatever the water may be mixed with downstream.
These reactions are physical rather than chemical, so there is no change in the water make-up. In addition to visual results, physical tests are available to show the positive mechanical changes such as increased water flow and improved heat transfer efficiency in heavily-scaled plumbing systems. The results substantiate the visibly apparent results.
As water passes through the electronic water conditioner, energy polarizes the mineral molecules in the water, thus reducing the surface tension to keep minerals in solution better. The energy actually alters the crystalline structure that the minerals will form when they are finally precipitated out of solution.