Roasty
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Irrigation Water treatment science project
In BOLA our water is trucked in from Agua Amarga and is very high in salts.
We do not intend to drink this, but wondered wether anybody had ever constructed any kind of basic filtration system using perhaps a black tank/pilar
type container with some kind of substance in the bottom (charcoal / other ??) to purify the water in order to use for irrigation/plants/vegetables?
My goal would be to have this tank filled every month or so and have a drip system running from it. Again we do not intend to drink this, but need to
make the natural water more plant friendly !!
Cheers.
Roasty
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Roasty
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Skunked
Wow With all that seasoned baja talent out there I thought for sure that somebody had tried to do some kind of hill-billy filtration !
Now if it was distilling tequila that I needed help on, then I am sure that I would have seen over 50 quality "how-to's" by now !
Cheers !
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Sharksbaja
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Dissolved salts are very hard to rid. Distilling or condensing it out are the most available and practical ways to remove salts.
Carbon filters are most effective at removing chlorine, sediment, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from water. They are not effective at
removing minerals, salts, and dissolved inorganic compounds.
Good luck. I think a new source is in order
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David K
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Why not use the spring water from the back side of town?
This was the source for hundreds or more years and I remember my mom saying how good the coffee was at Casa Diaz in 1967... It wasn't the Nescafe as
much as it was the spring water the town then lived off of.
As the town grew following the new pavement in the late 70's, additional water was needed, so the pipeline to Agua Amarga was installed.
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Roasty
In BOLA our water is trucked in from Agua Amarga and is very high in salts.
We do not intend to drink this, but wondered wether anybody had ever constructed any kind of basic filtration system using perhaps a black tank/pilar
type container with some kind of substance in the bottom (charcoal / other ??) to purify the water in order to use for irrigation/plants/vegetables?
My goal would be to have this tank filled every month or so and have a drip system running from it. Again we do not intend to drink this, but need to
make the natural water more plant friendly !!
Cheers.
Roasty |
No economical way to remove salts from water. There are reverse osmosis treatment systems for home use, but not cheap.
Suggest you plant species that tolerate high TDS irrigation water.
What is the TDS concentration?
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David K
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666 is correct, plant salt cedars! As the name implies, they love salty water consitions! See photos of salt cedars at Nuevo Mazatlan: http://vivabaja.com/nm
[Edited on 4-7-2009 by David K]
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
666 is correct, plant salt cedars! As the name implies, they love salty water consitions! See photos of salt cedars at Nuevo Mazatlan: http://vivabaja.com/nm
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dk,
we've been down this road before, i don't support anyone planting nasty invasive salt cedars, as your message suggest i do support
i support planting natives.
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David K
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 As the facts have been shown to you before, the salt cedar variety
used on the east coast of Baja is NOT invasive... not the same plant as the one causing problems in the USA.
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Tomatoes are fairly salt tolerant...I even saw one growing in the Bahia Gonzaga dump area--basically a salt flat--on my first ever trip into Baja in
1975. Even had a beautiful red tomato on it.
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Roasty
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Thanks guy's thats some great info.
Are those salt-cedars out the front of Guillermos ?
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