Turbulator or Fine Mesh?

Your water is hardly what I would call challenging. In reality, you need neiother a turbulator (recommended for high iron). Fine mesh resin will give a slightly more efficency but since your hardness is only around 13 grains per gallon, that resin is not necessary, either.

Either valve is a fine product and others here may prefer one or the other.

Are you sure you ave 23 ppm sodium? Recommended maximum for drinking water is 20 ppm. I would recommend an RO for all consummable water.

Andy Christensen, CWS-II

Thanks for your reply, Andy.

The test results show 23mg/l of sodium. That equals 23ppm, I think. It also lists 250mg/l of sodium (and chloride) as the acceptable limit. Is this incorrect? The house had a softener, but it is off and bypasses. Maybe some sodium remains in the copper pipes? The results also claim 0.152ppm of Manganese is 3X the limit. I asked about the turbulator or fine mesh for this, as well as the fact that it's well water. I had heard that Manganese is alleviated the same way as Iron.

We mostly drink bottled water (or beer!), but RO for the kitchen sink sounds like a good idea.

Thanks again,

"Lloyd"