Hey all. I am buying a new house on a well and while waiting on the various inspections I decided to just take some water home to test myself. I was disappointed to find that it is testing pretty high for Nitrates. Still waiting on results from the well inspection and septic inspection to see if there is anything further to worry about.
My town has a history of nitrate intrusion into the aquifer from septic use and a 30+ year battle over installing a sewer. A book was actually written about it. So I don't know if it something to do with that or possibly just contamination on site.
Just wondering if there is no way to correct this, and the water source is just always going to have some nitrates, if installing an RO system for my fish tanks would solve the problem. Or if even the RO water will have some trace of nitrates. It is otherwise an awesome house and the general home inspections didn't turn anything up too crazy so I am probably going to go ahead and continue with the purchase. Just worried about my fish.
My town has a history of nitrate intrusion into the aquifer from septic use and a 30+ year battle over installing a sewer. A book was actually written about it. So I don't know if it something to do with that or possibly just contamination on site.
Just wondering if there is no way to correct this, and the water source is just always going to have some nitrates, if installing an RO system for my fish tanks would solve the problem. Or if even the RO water will have some trace of nitrates. It is otherwise an awesome house and the general home inspections didn't turn anything up too crazy so I am probably going to go ahead and continue with the purchase. Just worried about my fish.
