Which water treatment chemical do you use?

Originally posted by Matak
Now not all of us have ammonia in our water to test for chloramine so it is a reasonable argument that if we add ammonia in a measured amount, add our de-chloramine product and then test for ammonia, the results should tell us if we have chloramine in our water. Unfortuately, I am out of de-chlorinator at the moment and it is Labour day so I can't perform the test myself. If there is a flaw in my understanding, please correct me.

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I think it would work better to take ammonia-free water, add a dechlorinator that removes chloramine, then test for ammonia using a Nessler based test (one tester bottle not two parts).

If ammonia appears where there was none before, it ought to be from the broken chloraimne.
 
Water Baby, that Alameda County chloramine FAQ sheet you linked is really clear. I'm not living with chloraminated water, so I was surprised to learn that chloramines pass through a reverse osmosis membrane and that even boiling doesn't necessarily break the chlorine/ammonia bond.

Chloramines are in everyone's future, it looks like...

I think anonapersona got the test for chloraminated water right.
 
Ooh, Ooh, what do I win?

Oh, yipee, do I get a prize?
 
Re: Ooh, Ooh, what do I win?

Originally posted by anonapersona
Oh, yipee, do I get a prize?
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Yes, you win an attaboy. Four attaboys will garner you a brownie point and you know what they are good for.
 
There is a newer version of Amquel, called Amquel Plus, that is supposed to detoxify NitrItes and NitrAtes, as well as Chlorine and Ammonia.

If anyone who has Amquel Plus would like to apply Anonapersona's logic (test some tank water for nitrites and nitrates before and after adding Amquel Plus), we could find out if it really does work, and to what degree.
 
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