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Routine water testing is a simple and affordable step you can take
to ensure that your water supply is safe and to protect your family's
health. Testing is the first and most important step for well owners, or
for any consumer concerned about their water quality. Water
testing is important to the health of you and that of your family, and
is conducted
to insure that water is suitable for its intended purpose. Water testing is a
simple way to design future solutions for the health and safety of
yourself, your family, and of course, your pets. Testing every year is highly
and routinely recommended for
drinking water sources, such as individual wells. Water testing
and analysis is
the only sure way to know what substances are present in your drinking
water. Water testing is usually the first approach to dealing with
water quality issues, and is vital during the summer and seasonal
changes.
Proper operation and routine water testing is
critical in managing all water
supplies, and if you obtain water from a private water supply, water testing is
always
your responsibility. Regularly scheduled testing is very important to keep your
drinking water clean and well operating at optimum performance. In practice,
testing is usually completed before, and is a condition of, a real estate
closing, yet periodic water testing is an important step towards providing a
supply that's both safe and appealing to use. Furthermore, many
water testing
laboratories have old and out-dated testing equipment; so it is wise to stay
abreast of the situation and keep in mind, testing is best when conducted on
site.
Lead
is a highly toxic metal that was used for many years in paint and other
household materials, and often used in the past to make household plumbing
materials and solder as well, it can still be found in many older homes. Lead and other
metals commonly found in plumbing systems are a very real and dangerous problem
that we face at work, at school and within the safety of our own homes. Lead
contamination of water from corrosion of metal plumbing and solder is one
water
quality problem that can be eliminated by replacing the lead and lead
soldered pipes, fittings, and
fixtures, even though the levels decrease as a building ages.
Hardness, sodium, chloride, fluoride, sulfates, iron, manganese, arsenic,
mercury lead, and radon are some of the contaminants tested for in your water
supply.
Lead can often enter your well water from household
plumbing as the water travels from the well to your faucet, especially when your
water is acidic. In homes that use public water systems, lead often enters the
water via a lead water main, or as it passes over
lead-based solder used on some copper pipes. Radon, a naturally occurring gas
which originates from the decay of uranium in the Earth, and enters the home
through well water as well. Radon gas gets mixed into the well water and is released into the air
via water faucets, showerheads, cracks and fissures, enabling the gas to move
through the ground the same way a pipe allows gas or a liquid to move.
Radon concentrations build up in underground soils and rocks, move through the
soil into your well water, and then release into the indoor air when you use the water.
By finding its way through small building cracks and openings into enclosed areas,
high concentrations of radon can build up in your home, and pose an increased lung
cancer risk. The concentration in a home depends upon many relevant factors
including, geology, the home's construction, and the property's
condition. Any house can have a radon problem, and annual water testing is needed to help monitor the quality of your water supply. Rigorous testing is conducted to ensure the highest purity of water quality. No single device exists that will rid water of every type of contaminant, so testing is needed to determine the exact areas of concern in order to devise a proper plan of action. Once water testing reveals the level of contaminants in your water, you can then address any issues detected or of course, have peace of mind that no issues were detected.
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