Green Water That Doesn’t to be Filtered Happy St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2012 - PRLog -- Would you jump into a pond or lake if the water was green? Would you drink water from your water faucet if it were green? Well people not only swimming, playing, but are flocking from miles around to see the Green river. Over the last 40 + years this tradition has taken place in Chicago where is holds it’s annually St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

In 1961 a Chicago plumber was wearing a pair of overalls that were stained almost a perfect Irish Green color. The plumbing business owner, who by the way was a bit obsessive about being clean, asked his employee how his uniform way dirty with green stains. When the employee was questioned about where he has been, he responded that he was out in the field trying to trace a disconnected water waste line was located. In order to find the line the plumber poured green dye into the water system and was checking the river’s edge to see where the source of the leak might be.

For some of us who think that this might have been causing pollution to the river, you are right. After the first few years environmental groups raised the issue that the oil based die could be harmful to the rivers ecology. To keep the tradition alive, Stephen M. Bailey the inventor of the green river idea, experimented with several new dyes to settle on a vegetable dye that was truly green (as in eco-friendly). See more about the history of the dying of the Chicago Green for St. Patrick’s Day.

The river and all that water colored green is really a sight to behold, but it is not something you would want to see coming out of open a faucet for your drinking water. Green water, when not dyed, is more than likely inundated with algae growth. Typically the factors that contribute to algae growth in water is excess sun light, phosphates, and nitrates. In many cases people who use surface water can experience issues with algae growth. Here are a few algae water filter tips with you are dealing with excessive algae growth.

1. Spin Down Filter: A Rusco http://www.freshwatersystems.com/c-203-rusco-sediment-fil... sediment trapper filter can be used as a pretreatment before water entering your whole house filter.

2. Pleated Water filter Cartridge: Harmsco http://www.freshwatersystems.com/s-102-harmsco.aspx pleated polyester filter cartridges, which outperform conventional cartridges by lowering filtration costs, Increased dirt holding capacity, and no additives or binders, which may cause foaming

3. Is your filter housing Clear? Algae need sunlight to grow. If you are using clear filter housing and it is exposed to light this might be part of the issue. A suggestion to correct this is to use opaque filter housing such as Pentek Big Blue Filter housing http://www.freshwatersystems.com/c-111-10bb-20bb-filter-h...

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from the leader in water filters and water filtration systems, FreshWaterSystems.com

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