Chemicals

NSF Certified Drinking Water Systems

If you need whole house or large scale removal of organic compounds, pesticides, herbicides or industrial contaminants, it is important to suppy our technical team with an accurate water analysis. You should also fill out an online technical request form so one of our water technicians can assist you in recommending a solution.

NOTE: Currently, the only systems we carry that are NSF certified for "chemical" contaminants, are drinking water, point-of-use systems. We can supply non-certified whole house or larger flow chemical removal systems if you know the specific contaminant you are trying to remove, on a case by case basis, and your application does not require a State certified or NSF certified system.

The term "chemical" is an often overused, general term applied to synthetic substances, but as is commonly known, the earth and all organisms are made up of "chemicals". Innumerable chemical compounds are vital for all life forms and processes.

In discussions of water quality, "chemical run-off" or "chemical contamination" is commonly used to describe contamination by solvents, organic compounds, pesticides, herbicides and byproducts of chlorination. These types of chemical contaminants are strictly regulated by USEPA standards, and most municipally treated waters are closed monitored.

On private systems, chemical contamination can be a problem since these compounds are often undetectable by taste or smell.

.Most of the chemical contamination has been a result of leaking underground storage tanks and waste drums, which can slowly contaminate the surrounding aquifer. Removal of trace amounts of pesticides and herbicides, or gasoline byproducts from leaking underground storage tanks, is often accomplished with activated carbon, aeration, or membrane separation.

Pesticides and herbicides are rarely found in municipally treated waters. Many commonly sold water filters using activated carbon list dozens or even hundreds of these compounds in their sales literature, but are seldom used on water that actually contain these compounds. In some cases, if the source water is actually contaminated, whole-house systems designed to remove the contaminant are required, as skin absorption in the shower is possible.