Water Quality
Ever wonder if the water coming from your fresh water tanks was TRULY fit to drink? Sometimes there are obvious clues, smell, color, green things floating - yuck!$%# But to be sure, Steph wanted an analytical answer from me. So off to Home Depot to purchase a water quality test kit. I picked up the one from Pro Labs, Inc. The test kit cost around $10 and provides strips to perform two test of the following type:
pH, Total Alkalinity, Total Chlorine, Total Hardness
Iron
Copper
Nitrate/Nitrite
I tested our starboard fresh water tank on October 13, 2002 and found the following:
| pH | 7.5 (safe) |
| Total Alkalinity | 240 (high) |
| Total Chlorine | 0 (safe) |
| Total Hardness | 120 (hard) |
| Iron | 0 (safe) |
| Copper | 0 (safe) |
| Nitrate | 0 (safe) |
| Nitrite | 0 (safe) |