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The right system depends on where your water comes from. Here's how city and well water differ.
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Request Free EstimateCity (municipal) water is treated to be safe, but it can still carry chlorine or chloramine taste and odor, hardness that scales your home, lead picked up from older plumbing, and fluoride. The usual setup is a softener (or Enhanced Filtration) for scale, whole-house filtration for chlorine/chloramine, and reverse osmosis for drinking water.
Private well water gives you independence — and full responsibility for quality. Wells commonly show hardness plus iron, manganese and sulfur (rotten-egg) odor, and can carry bacteria, nitrates, arsenic or radium/radon depending on local geology. Well treatment is almost always multi-stage: sediment and iron removal, softening, UV disinfection for microbial safety, and reverse osmosis at the kitchen.
Whether you're on city or well water, it starts with a free estimate. City water is more predictable, but wells should be tested before any system is designed — and re-tested periodically — because what's in the water determines the right train of equipment.
Not worse — just different. Wells aren't treated by a utility, so they need testing and usually multi-stage treatment, including disinfection. City water is treated but can still carry chlorine, hardness and lead from plumbing.
At minimum hardness, iron, manganese, bacteria (coliform/E. coli), nitrates and pH — plus arsenic or radium where local geology warrants. Our free estimate covers the essentials and we can arrange lab testing for health-related contaminants.
If there's any risk of bacteria, UV is an effective, chemical-free way to disinfect. It's a common part of a complete well-water system.
The technology is tailored to the source. If you switch sources or have both, we design accordingly — testing first either way.
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