Well Water Problems
Blue-green stains and pinhole leaks are your pipes dissolving. A neutralizer stops the clock.
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Water with a pH below 7 is acidic — and acidic water eats plumbing. It dissolves copper from pipe walls (those blue-green stains on tubs and fixtures are your plumbing, relocated), drives pinhole leaks, leaches metals into your drinking water, and shortens the life of water heaters and every fixture in the house. Low alkalinity usually accompanies it: with no carbonate buffering, pH swings freely and corrosion accelerates.
Central Texas cities generally run alkaline water, but Hill Country wells in granite and sand formations can run acidic — and because the damage is silent until a leak appears, pH is one of the first numbers our forensic water analysis checks on every well.
The classic fix is a calcite neutralizer — a backwashing tank of natural calcium carbonate media that dissolves just enough into the water to raise pH and alkalinity. For very low pH, high flows, or where added hardness is unwanted, a soda-ash injection system doses the correction precisely instead. Either way the goal is the same: water that's kind to your plumbing before it ever reaches it — and where corrosion protection needs reinforcing, Active Armour®'s phosphate film adds a second line of defense.
Those stains are dissolved pipe. Left alone, the same chemistry graduates to pinhole leaks.
Pinhole leaks →pH says how acidic; alkalinity says how easily it swings. We measure both — treatment needs both numbers.
The analysis →Natural media raises pH as water flows through — simple, reliable, self-limiting. Adds slight hardness the design accounts for.
Well systems →Precision dosing for severe pH or high flows — corrected chemistry without added hardness.
Injection systems →Roughly 7.0–8.5 is the comfortable zone for plumbing. Below 7, water turns increasingly corrosive — and the damage happens quietly inside your pipes long before you see a symptom.
Blue-green stains on fixtures and tubs (dissolved copper), pinhole leaks in copper pipe, metallic taste, and premature failures of water heaters and fixtures. Low alkalinity often rides along, leaving the water with no buffering to resist pH swings.
A calcite (calcium carbonate) media bed dissolves slowly into the water, raising pH and alkalinity naturally. For very low pH or high flows, a soda-ash injection system does the same job with precise dosing. Note the trade-off: calcite adds a little hardness back — which the system design accounts for.
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