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Confused about water hardness
A recent Davis Enterprise story on proposed water rate increases confused me with what seemed like a contradiction. First, the story said that “our deep well water has a similar hardness to river water.” Later it assured us that, after the change to river water, “filtration and softening systems will not be needed.”
My understanding has always been that Davis water is extremely hard. I assume that river water could not be that hard. Might we not have been given some numbers? Average hardness of well water; average hardness of river water.
Although it would have been a bit off-topic, the comparative safety of chlorinated tap water vs. commercial bottled water might have been mentioned, since cost was discussed.
Keith Brinton
Davis
Editor’s note: According to experts in the Davis Public Works Department, the city’s intermediate-depth wells provide water that is harder than that found in the deep aquifer and in the Sacramento River.
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