Do my fellow NY people use anything other than tap water - Page 2

#11: Post by **mjonesjr** » January 4th, 2023, 12:56 pm

Very glad I stumbled upon this (my first post). I am about to grab the Liner Micra and have been trying to find other NYers who use tap. I have been using a Breville Infuser for years without issue. Tested my water and it seems pretty solid -49 TDS out of the faucet and 71 after filtering through PUR - PH is right around 7 to 7.5.

#12: Post by **Shakespeare** » January 4th, 2023, 5:12 pm

another_jim wrote:There's the prize winning NYC tap water from the Finger Lakes, which is pretty perfect for coffee; but you only get it in parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Other places get much less grand water from Jersey. The Fingerlakes water is around 50 TDS; the Jersey water around 150. You can also check with the local web sites for the water source for your neighborhood.

I lived in QUEENS for 50 years and we once received our water from Jamaica water works but that has stopped.

" Located in southeastern Queens, the groundwater supply system consists of 67 supply wells at 43 well stations and several water storage tanks. The groundwater system did provide water to a limited portion of the city's distribution system in Queens until 2007, but has not operated since then. When online, residents within the service area received groundwater or a mix of ground and surface waters depending on demand and supply availability."

" The NYC water supply system consists of three surface water sources:
the Croton Watershed (375 square miles) east of the Hudson River
the combined Catskill and Delaware watershed system (1,597 square miles) west of the Hudson River."

" Queens gets its drinking water from 19 reservoirs and three controlled lakes spread across a nearly 2,000-square- mile watershed. The watershed is not located in New York City, but rather upstate, in portions of the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains that are as far as 125 miles north of the City."

#13: Post by **OK31** » March 24th, 2023, 11:02 pm

homeburrero wrote:That EV9613-21, is a fairly high capacity filter that removes particulates, chlorine, off-tastes and odors. It is not a decarbonizer (which is good here) and would not reduce hardness nor alkalinity. It does have a scale inhibitor that may help with scale risk, although you don't have much scale risk with NYC water. It's probably more capacity than you need, with a service flow of 1.67 gpm and a capacity of 9000 gallons. You need to replace it every 6 months even if you are nowhere near that 9000 gallon capacity.

Their 2015B is functionally similar - - not a decarbonizer, just charcoal, particulates, and a scale inhibitor. Each filter has a service flow of 0.5 gpm and capacity of 3000 gallons, so a dual head setup should give you 1 gpm and 6000 gallons, You'd need to replace both filters at 6 month intervals.

Looking back to the earlier Prima advice: NYC water analysis help , they recommended a Everpure EV927560 QL2-OCS2. That is functionally similar to the others, but lower capacity. In a single cartridge setup it would have a service flow of 0.5 gpm and a capacity of 1500 gallons. If your needs are less than 8 gallons per day, this might be the best fit of the three.

None of these will reduce your alkalinity nor pH (which is good). Also, none of them will reduce your calcium hardness, nor your chloride ion, which for typical NYC water is probably not needed anyway.

Hey Pat, quick follow up reviewing primal advice on the smallest of the u it's it sounds like the scale inhibitor uses polyphosphates which I'd really rather avoid. So then I started looking at this
BWT Filter Head with Flush Valve for Bestmax Premium Cartridges - Best Water Technology Flex Head https://prima-coffee.com/equipment/bwt/812420-bwt

With this filter https://prima-coffee.com/equipment/bwt/812323-bwt-sp though it seems to no longer be available. Since I'm looking to plumb in for ease of use and since the kitchen update will have plumbing done it's kind on a no brained. What do you suggest?

#14: Post by **homeburrero** » March 25th, 2023, 11:25 am

OK31 wrote:BWT Filter Head with Flush Valve for Bestmax Premium Cartridges - Best Water Technology Flex Head https://prima-coffee.com/equipment/bwt/812420-bwt

With this filter https://prima-coffee.com/equipment/bwt/812323-bwt-sp though it seems to no longer be available. Since I'm looking to plumb in for ease of use and since the kitchen update will have plumbing done it's kind on a no brained. What do you suggest?

I can't tell what filter this is (I'm getting a 404 when trying to go there.) If it's one of their Bestmax cartridges it would be a decarbonizer and I don't think you want that one.

If it's a BWT BestTaste (https://www.bwt.com/en/-/media/bwt/glob ... e51713951c ) then it would be a simple particulates and carbon filter that would do the job. It fits on that BWT filter head but just doesn't make use of the bypass. Before going that route I think you should make sure you can get that cartridge in the future - I worry they might be discontinuing it.

Most inline refrigerator filters are simple particulates + carbon or charcoal filters that should do the job for you. Or you could go with a generic setup in a 10" housing which would not lock you into a particular filter brand. One example from CCS: https://www.chriscoffee.com/products/ge ... ter-system

March 25th, 2023, 11:14 pm

Yah I'm not sure which they were showing and also have concerns about discontinuation. This is a brand I already use for an under counter with a spout so fairly trustworthy as a company so can't imagine discontinuation without some alternatives https://www.aquasana.com/under-sink-wat ... 29886.html wonder if that line 1.5gpm flow is enough and probably would want and need a pressure gauge anyway?

What about when you change the filter they advice to flush X amount how would I manage that? Connect a different drain off quick connect hose to flush?

#16: Post by **homeburrero** » March 28th, 2023, 3:20 pm

OK31 wrote:What about when you change the filter they advice to flush X amount how would I manage that? Connect a different drain off quick connect hose to flush?

Good point. You probably want to rig in a John Guest T and a valve just for flushing if they don't have that capability in the setup they sell.

OK31 wrote:wonder if that line 1.5gpm flow is enough and probably would want and need a pressure gauge anyway?

zShould be plenty. Some manuals advise 2 gpm but that's overly conservative. Many of the popular filter systems are nominally .5 gpm.