Cottage water treatment project

[bosco659]

After over 60 years of family ownership, I thought it’s about time to treat the lake water at our cottage to make it safe to drink. We currently carry drinking / cooking water from home and it’s a pita.

With advice from my neighbour (experts in water purification), I made up a small system that will treat all the water at our cottage. We’ll be heading up there in a couple of weeks to install and test it.

It’s basically a 10 micron sediment filter and a UV sterilizer. Pretty simple but should be effective. I built it at home, attached to a marine plywood base. Two quick connections and I should be in business.

 

[atom4488]

After over 60 years of family ownership, I thought it’s about time to treat the lake water at our cottage to make it safe to drink. We currently carry drinking / cooking water from home and it’s a pita.

With advice from my neighbour (experts in water purification), I made up a small system that will treat all the water at our cottage. We’ll be heading up there in a couple of weeks to install and test it.

It’s basically a 10 micron sediment filter and a UV sterilizer. Pretty simple but should be effective. I built it at home, attached to a marine plywood base. Two quick connections and I should be in business.

I'm in the same boat, however we don't have to bring the water from home; there is a hillside spring on the road to the cottage that flows vigorously all year long from which we fill water jugs. Beautiful, clear, cold almost sweet-tasting water free for the taking!

 

[Mailman]

After over 60 years of family ownership, I thought it’s about time to treat the lake water at our cottage to make it safe to drink. We currently carry drinking / cooking water from home and it’s a pita.

With advice from my neighbour (experts in water purification), I made up a small system that will treat all the water at our cottage. We’ll be heading up there in a couple of weeks to install and test it.

It’s basically a 10 micron sediment filter and a UV sterilizer. Pretty simple but should be effective. I built it at home, attached to a marine plywood base. Two quick connections and I should be in business.

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Interesting….looks small and efficient. And its design would trap and or kill any micro organisms present in the surface water?

 

[bosco659]

I'm in the same boat, however we don't have to bring the water from home; there is a hillside spring on the road to the cottage that flows vigorously all year long from which we fill water jugs. Beautiful, clear, cold almost sweet-tasting water free for the taking!

Lucky you. Have you tested it for Beaver Fever?

 

[bosco659]

Interesting….looks small and efficient. And its design would trap and or kill any micro organisms present in the surface water?

According to my neighbour, a 10 micron sediment filter would be fine for capturing the majority of nasty bits. The 5 micron I bought (it’s just a filter cartridge) is just a bit of insurance. He said that there are some parasites that are 2 micron in size and can’t be trapped by the filter. Actually a 1 micron filter might do it, but would restrict flow. Then adding the UV sterilizer, anything that got past the filter would be zapped. He gave me a bunch of test kits so I can see if the system is working.

 

[RC4MAN]

Looking into a whole house system myself. A friend did his house a year back and loves his