Sarasota, FL Water Report Quality Analysis

Generally, your water looks good, though Lead is at 2 ppb (maximum contaminant level is 15 ppb) but KDF will remove it along with small amounts of other metals like nickel, copper and barium. You do have HAA5s and TTHMs, present in all municipal systems, but our KDF/GAC cartridge reduces them. Fluoride is low at 0.514 ppm (average is about 1 ppm) so you may not need to remove it, though we can remove 90 percent with our fluoride cartridge. At 0.5 ppm fluoride, the cartridge can last 2 years. Chlorine is added as the disinfectant at 0.8 ppm average, and our KDF/GAC cartridge will remove it. See our NSF-53 Water Test at:

http://www.thewaterexchange.net/nsf-53_test.html

Nitrates are listed at 0.084 ppm (MCL is 15) which is low.

You do have some radioactivity, but below the maximum contaminant level. Radium at 1.7 pCi/l (MCL is 5) and Alpha Particles at 3.9 pCi/l (MCL is 15). If you have a whole house water softener, it will reduce the radium. Alpha particles require reverse osmosis. We don't sell softeners, but we do sell a softener cartridge that can be part of a filter system.

With the above information, I would recommend a single KDF/GAC filter system for chlorine and heavy metals at $109.95. If you want to reduce the radioactivity our Model NAK-UC with KDF/GAC and Sodium/Softener cartridge ($189.95) will work. Or, if you want to remove the fluoride, use our UCD-F system.

See http://www.thewaterexchange.net/under_counter_filters.html.

We also have countertop versions of our filters.