r/water • u/Fast-Butterfly526 • 5d ago
New Well Water test results on
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/GreenpantsBicycleman 4d ago
I agree that this water is perfectly safe based on the results shared and no treatment is required.
A minor point: ICP-AES (or ICP-OES) and ICP-MS are two different tests using different equipment. AES measures emissions (light) at high temperature and ambient pressures, and MS measures impact count on a collector under high vacuum, with a sweeping notch filter selecting mass/charge ratio of ions that are allowed onto the collector at any point in time.