Water in North Stamford, CT
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I'd say stick with your water recipes.
The worst thing about this water is that it has 127 mg/L chloride. Chloride is corrosive and not easily filtered unless you resort to reverse osmosis (RO) systems. La Marzocco and others advise going to RO when water has over 30 mg/L chloride. Synesso is more conservative an advises RO when chloride is higher than 15 mg/L. Your 127 mg/L level is unusually high.
The water also has high calcium hardness and would likely be very scale prone unless softened. (84 mg/L calcium is equivalent to 210 mg/L calcium hardness as CaCO3.)
P.S.
This report is missing numbers for bicarbonate and for alkalinity, so you can't do a proper limescale risk estimation. But at that level of calcium hardness you can pretty much assume that it's very scale prone.
The worst thing about this water is that it has 127 mg/L chloride. Chloride is corrosive and not easily filtered unless you resort to reverse osmosis (RO) systems. La Marzocco and others advise going to RO when water has over 30 mg/L chloride. Synesso is more conservative an advises RO when chloride is higher than 15 mg/L. Your 127 mg/L level is unusually high.
The water also has high calcium hardness and would likely be very scale prone unless softened. (84 mg/L calcium is equivalent to 210 mg/L calcium hardness as CaCO3.)
P.S.
This report is missing numbers for bicarbonate and for alkalinity, so you can't do a proper limescale risk estimation. But at that level of calcium hardness you can pretty much assume that it's very scale prone.
Pat
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