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There is a formula to add chlorine bleach to water to make it safe to store. Not much is added. I saved a few 30 gal drums for Y2K,,, need to dump it,, clean the drum,, and redo or get rid of drums. But it’s easily researchable. 2 liter pop bottles are food grade. IIRC,, it’s a couple drops of chlorine bleach per 2 liter. Easy to store,, easy to use. | |||
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This is my method. We are on a shared well, about 450 ft from our house, and it has its own electric supply. If the power goes out, I have a standby generator for the house, but the well is not protected that way, so power out, no water. I keep four 30 gallon containers stored in a closet (blue plastic, food grade). I use the bleach formula mentioned, easily researched, but it does not take much for a 30 gallon container. In 10 years of keeping them, I have emptied and refilled them once, about 2 years ago. The water and container were in pristine condition. If you did that every 5 years (empty, inspect, rinse, and refill), you should be good to go. I use a hand truck to move them when necessary, and keep a ball valve spigot in the hole. You can then tip them or prop them on something to get water, but I also have a plastic siphon pump thing to get water from them while they are upright. | |||
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i have a couple of the Blitz 6-1/2 gal. and one of the blue reliance. Both good. I slightly prefer the Blitz. But the spigot is handy. I have had and used well water from both that had been in them for a month or more. No issue. But as suggested treating it for extended storage is probably a good idea. "Practice like you want to play in the game" | |||
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This in and of itself is reason enough. The best times of my life was helping my Dad do things that helped us to become more self reliant. ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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I support what you want to do but haven't seen one critical issue addressed yet. Just because the water comes out of the ground looking great does not mean it's not toxic. I did what you did for quite sometime, hike in, fill up 2-3 gallons and put it in our freezer. I figured if the power went out or the water went out, it was a good thing. We drank all of it but unless you have your spring tested it could have natural heavy mineral contaminants. Things like Arsenic are common. I was pulling it out of a backcountry spring between basalt layers and figured I was good, but it's not necessarily true and you won't know unless you test it. https://www.cdc.gov/healthywat...disease/arsenic.html | |||
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A little chlorine in the stored water will kill most bacteria and algae. A little sunshine before use will remove the chlorine. I'd get your water and the spring water tested to figure out what you are really dealing with. Our well in Michigan has the best tasting water we've ever had. Under 55 degrees right out of the faucet and the water is soft to boot. We had it tested and found the fluoride level was a little high. Since, our water company in Florida doesn't add fluoride, I'm not worried about getting a little extra during the two months we spend up north. You don't need RO to deal with chlorine. There are filters for the whole house that will take care of it for much less money than RO. A water softener can take care of water hardness. We use RO for our cooking and drinking water in Florida. I used the pool test kit and found our tap water had about the same level of chlorine as our pool. | |||
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The high mineral content is what your filters are fixing in your tap water (re: soap) - not chlorine. Chlorine isn't going to change soap lather one way or the other. Too many minerals in spring water gives you the shits. Check with local health dept and see if they have any data on that spring. Around here, those types of springs get sampled about once a year for bacteriological contamination. ------------------ SBrooks | |||
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1. If you want to take your kids outside to play, then take them outside to play. No chores necessary. 2. Chlorine in your city water is to kill bacteria, viruses, and protozoa. If you are concerned with the chlorine, then you can filter it out as you are doing now. If you are going to store water, then you should put chlorine in it to prevent stuff from growing in it, which basically means you might as well just use the city water. 3. Minerals appearing in water should be trace minerals in comparison to what you should be getting from your food. If you have some sort of deficiency, then that can be easily addressed by adding a multi vitamin to your daily routine. Driving out to a spring to fill up a couple of bottles of water monthly seems a little silly. Bottlers for sure are not putting raw spring water into bottles for sale--they have sophisticated filtration systems, including UV purifiers, to prevent people from getting sick. If you have access to that sort of filtration system, then you might as well just filter your city water--which is, by the way, what a ton of bottlers also do anyway. | |||
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| I'm Fine |
Well said. Kinda what I was trying to get at - just not as clearly as you :-) ------------------ SBrooks | |||
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