American Plumber Whole House System

[jorhern]

I want an automatic whole house sediment filter by American Plumber for turbidity, but I have heard that turbidity requires fine filtration. Is there a rule of thumb for micron rating filtration for turbidity?

[waterfilters]

There is no micron rating for turbidity. You can determine micron requirements fairly accurately using the following settling test:
Use a quart sample of water taken from the water in the toilet tank (stir up the tank before collecting sample). Let the sample stand and settle.
If the water clears in:
seconds the sediment is coarse - 50 micron and up
minutes the sediment is medium - 20 to 50 micron
hours the sediment is fine - 5 to 20 micron
over night or days the sediment is extra fine - 1 to 5 micron
does not settle the sediment is colloidal - submicron


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