This week, you need to decide how to restore your household water quality after your existing well system has failed, using data and knowledge specific to Navajo County's aquifer 220NAVJ.
How do sample depth, well depth, or source type change what a Navajo County resident should expect from total well water treatment?
Government groundwater sampling from Navajo County’s aquifer 220NAVJ, including 40 results from 14 separate wells ranging 554 to 3737 feet deep, shows concentrations of calcium and magnesium, which contribute to water hardness. The median hardness concentration found was 2.935 mg/L, with a range from 1.23 to 163.0 mg/L. These results reflect diverse well depths and locations but do not reflect any single well, including your own.
Sample depth and well depth influence what you might expect your water to contain, but only a direct test of your household well will establish its specific water quality. Aquifer 220NAVJ spans a broad area so water characteristics can vary significantly with depth and geology.
How should a household judge treatment capacity against its daily water demand?
When total well water treatment is required, matching treatment capacity to the household’s daily usage is critical. The Fleck Total Well Chlorination System offers a grain capacity of 32,000. This number helps estimate how much hardness and related minerals the system can handle before regeneration or maintenance is needed.
To align treatment capacity with household needs, determine your typical daily water consumption. This includes all activities such as bathing, cooking, and laundering. A system with a 32,000 grain capacity is designed for residential volumes that often range in several hundred gallons per day.
What additional questions might a commercial or industrial operator ask that a household does not?
Unlike households, commercial or industrial users must consider higher water volume demands and often require detailed water quality data beyond hardness, calcium, and magnesium. They also evaluate impacts on equipment longevity, process consistency, and regulatory compliance.
Households usually focus on immediate water quality symptoms and treatment capacity rather than industrial water chemistry or system integration questions.
What household symptoms indicate total well water treatment is needed, and which do not?
In Navajo County, if your home water system has failed, signs like changes in taste, staining on fixtures, or scaling in pipes can indicate water quality issues related to total well conditions. However, symptoms such as unusual odors, coloration unrelated to mineral content, or isolated plumbing problems may not signal a total well water treatment need.
Because sampling in the area shows no federal health-based violations for hardness-related minerals, detected hardness or mineral presence itself is not unsafe but can cause aesthetic or operational concerns addressed by treatment.
Why do aesthetic secondary standards differ from health-based limits, especially for hardness-related minerals?
Calcium and magnesium contribute to water hardness, affecting taste, scaling, and staining, which are governed by aesthetic secondary standards. These standards help maintain water quality that is acceptable for household use but are not health-based limits.
The U.S. Geological Survey sampling in Navajo County found no hardness concentrations exceeding federal health limits. This means that while hardness may affect your water’s feel or appearance, it does not represent a health hazard according to these measurements.
For households in Navajo County with failed water equipment and total well conditions, the Fleck Total Well Chlorination System ships ready to configure and provides a robust treatment capacity of 32,000 grains, suitable for typical residential daily water demands.
Where this information comes from
Source: USGS groundwater sampling. Sampled 2019-08-23. These figures describe groundwater sampled in this area. They are not a test of any individual private well - only a test of that well can establish its own water.
On record: U.S. Geological Survey sampling of Hardness, Ca, Mg in the 220NAVJ aquifer (Navajo County): 40 results from 14 wells, median 2.935 mg/L, range 1.23-163.0 mg/L; none above any federal threshold
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