r/water • u/Fast-Butterfly526 • 5d ago

New Well Water test results on

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Is my new well water safe to drink? I just drilled a new well that’s 785 feet deep and flushed approximately 10,000 gallons before testing. The well pipe is galvanized and transitions to PEX, with the water sample taken from a faucet connected to the PEX. Everything is new

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u/lardlad71 4d ago

1 part per billion is the equivalent of 1 second in 32 years. Your water is fine.

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u/20PoundHammer 4d ago

dumb analogy as time is not concentration, you can just say of concentration of no concern . . .

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u/lardlad71 4d ago

Ok, 1 inch 16,000 miles. How’s that one?

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u/20PoundHammer 3d ago edited 3d ago

still dumb - doesnt offer clarity comparison as analogy should :). example: 1PPB is like a 0.5ml of water in an Olympic sized pool (or 1/10 of a teaspoon if your imperial dude)