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Hi,

I just received a water analysis from our well. We live in Ontario,
Canada,
this is a new well and we've been using it for about a year and a half
with
no problems at all. The water was great, until just about a week ago.
The water has turned salty and metallic tasting. We called our water
softener guy to come and check things out and he said our TDS had gone up
substantially and of course he was right!

My question is, why did our water change so drastically all of a sudden??
What are the chances that it will go back to the way it was??
What will this water cause the way it is now? I doubt I'll be able to use
it to water my gardens outside now?

Anyway, here are the results from the lab:

Alkalinity as CaCO3: 228 mg/L

Chloride: 526 mg/L

Conductivity: 2760 uS/cm

Fluoride: 1.12 mg/L

N-NO3 (nitrate): 0.10 mg/L

pH: 7.71

Sulphate: 481 mg/L

TDS: 1930 mg/L

Hardness as CaCO3: 573 mg/L ( I believe this works out to about 33
grains
of hardness?)

Ion Balance: 0.96

Calcium : 142 mg/L

Magnesium: 53 mg/L

Potassium: 11 mg/L

Sodium: 379 mg/L

Iron: 1.30 mg/L

Maganese : 0.03 mg/L

Not being a water expert, I'll guess that "TDS" is total disolved solids,
right? Have you compared your data with the data from various city water
supplies? Some do use wells. Often the data are on-line since it's
required to be reported to the public once a year. Here, we drink Lake
Erie, not well water; but there's a water quality report at:
http://www.clevelandheights.com/pdfs...brochure04.pdf

Seems like a local health department would be able to tell you if any of
your numbers would make the water unhealthy.

TKM