Removing iron from borehole water

[rh1]

PM sent with my email address.

kind regards

[REAList]

http://powerforum.co.za/topic/1733-b...#comment-29705

[theoventer]

Hi guys.

Here are some photos of a static filter system to remove iron from borehole water that I saw the other day. A very nice looking setup costing the client over R60 000.00.Apparently they are going to add on two more birm filters at R 18 000.00 each ......yo

Does not look like the iron is out at all.

With our Mini Water Treatment Plant the quality of the water looks like this.


At half the price !!!!!

These static filter systems are a ripoff.

[Jako Brand]

Hi Theo,I would like some more info with regards to your system as well also with regards to the qty's of the chemicals used comparative to water and where one can buy these as i would like to connect my well point to my house.I have been successful in removing the iron with an in line chlorine system (Klorman) that works very well(water goes through this to a settling tank).However as i am not comfortable with the chlorine as a total defense against bacteria etc i have not as yet connected to my house.Your information and advise will be greatly appreciated as all the water companies is using the drought to milk us dry for stupid amounts of money.

[theoventer]

Jako

The removing of iron with an inline chlorine system will work but...... pumping it over into a settling tank and then wait for the bus to come takes ages. Use mineral soft Granular HTH chlorine. Ad a sand filter which takes the debris and iron out. With this filter you can backwash the iron out. This takes 2 - 4 hours for clean water.

Chlorine as a total Defense
Chlorine is used in 98% of water treatment plants right over the world. Chlorine is your best disinfectant and the key to germ destruction. It kills 99% viruses, bacteria such as salmonella, e-coli, and microbial waterborne pathogens including those that can cause typhoid fever, dysentery, cholera and legionnaires disease. I can go on and on...........

In our system we take chlorine and chloramines out completely. Again this is an instant process.

You can follow any system but with our concept it takes two to three hours from the ground to the tap. ( no holding periods or settling tanks)

You are welcome to E-mail me for more information ( theoventer@hotmail.com)


Regards

Theo

[andrenel]

Hi Andries awesome post.

where do you source the HypoChlor ?

Going to go the same route.

regards
Andre

[Jughead]

Hi Andries awesome post.

where do you source the HypoChlor ?

Going to go the same route.

regards
Andre

Hi Andre,

I don’t think Andries (in the YouTube video) is on this Forum.

You can buy HypoChlor at various Supermarkets (swimming pool section).

I found some @ Checkers - about R99-00 each.

Regards

Abdul

[CraigH]

Hello Theo

Just want to thank you again for all the help you gave on setting up my water treatment plant. System works great with first lab result confirming that there is zero E-Coli and Coliforms in my treated borehole water with the chemicals you suggested. I am still waiting for my other lab test from Bemlab wrt heavy metals and other metals in solution but with my TDS below 500 I am 98% sure it will be safe for human consumption. Find attached some pics of my installation. All told it cost me a tad over R33K but one could get away with smaller tanks and no Big Blue element filters( I just added the Big Blue as insurance). The installation itself is not very complicated and if one is handy you should have no trouble with the DIY option, I just refuse to pay someone R10-15K to do something I can do.

[CraigH]

sorry I forgot to mention that I also installed a 85W UV tank lamp on the 2nd tank(5000 ltr secondary treatment/holding tank). I also have a venturi in my 2500 ltr tank which operates as I am filling the tank thus aerating the borehole water to help oxidise the iron in solution. Also I have a little(800 ltr per min) fishtank airpump which I will be installing into my 2nd 5000 ltr tank(primary holding tank connected to point of use). To avoid contamination of municipal water I have fitted 2 x non return valves and there are x3 stopcocks in line to seperate my treated borehole water to that of the municipality. In fact my pH is much better than municipal water.

[Tarmac]

sorry I forgot to mention that I also installed a 85W UV tank lamp on the 2nd tank(5000 ltr secondary treatment/holding tank). I also have a venturi in my 2500 ltr tank which operates as I am filling the tank thus aerating the borehole water to help oxidise the iron in solution. Also I have a little(800 ltr per min) fishtank airpump which I will be installing into my 2nd 5000 ltr tank(primary holding tank connected to point of use). To avoid contamination of municipal water I have fitted 2 x non return valves and there are x3 stopcocks in line to seperate my treated borehole water to that of the municipality. In fact my pH is much better than municipal water.

Great job Craig. Can you please post a pic of the venturi. Do you mind sharing where you bought the it?

[rh1]

Hello Craig

Looks very professional. When I google Big Blue element filters, I get various results, can I ask where you purchase these filters?

[CraigH]

Big Blue Filter system

Hello Craig

Looks very professional. When I google Big Blue element filters, I get various results, can I ask where you purchase these filters?

Hello

The best price in town will be from Mike at Cape Garden Centre in Joostenberg Vlakte. I got mine at Bergrivier Besproeiing in Paarl

[CraigH]

Hi Tarmac

I made my own venturi with 2x 40>32 reducers(PVC weld type) and a piece of 20mm conduit but you can buy ready made venturis at Koi fish shops or at Effast in Stikland

[AndyD]

Great looking setup, your plumbing is much neater than mine

[Ghost]

Help with water

Dear Eugene

I have been reading up on ground water purification for the past two years. I wanted a system which was cheap and effective. I wanted to put my red iron filled well point water through a system where I can use it in my house and also drink it.

I did the following.

I got two thousand litre flow bins and one two and a half thousand storage tank. On the first flow bin I installed a normal swimming pool sand filter. I then pump my well point water (very red to a point where it stain the walls) into the flow bin and filter it through the swimming pool sand filter. I add half a cup Chlorine to the water and pump it for about four hours. The chlorine oxidises with the iron and the iron is then catched in the sand filter which I backwash out. After four hours the red water becomes sparkling clean like a normal swimming pool.

When the water is sparkling clean I pump it over to the next flow bin. The only problem then is that the Chlorine and chloramine is very high. I then add Potassium Metabisulfite to the water which takes out both chlorine and chloramine from the water. This chemical works immediately with immediate effect. The potassium
metabisulphite reduces the PH to about 5.7. I then add soda ash which takes my PH to about 7.1. This water is now iron free with no bacteria. Colourless, odourless, germ free drinking water.

Metabisulfite is what the use in wine, cooldrinks and lots of foodstuffs. Metabisulfite is also an anti oxidant and a preservative. I have been using my system for quite some time with great success. I produce about 4000 lt of clean drinking water which I then pump into my storage tank for home use.

Cost involve in this mini water purifying system is very minimal.

You can definitely contact me for more information. I am not a salesman wanting to sell you filter systems that does not work.



Regards

Theo

I read you setup and is very jealous and would like to sort my water out. Its being tested as we speak (wellpoint) but from what I can see the water has a red colour and is very salty. Need help to setup my water for off the grid use.