DEAR EDITOR:
I have lived in Morgan Hill since 1978. The first thing I did
when I moved in to my house in Holiday Lake Estates was to install
a water distiller.
DEAR EDITOR:
I have lived in Morgan Hill since 1978. The first thing I did when I moved in to my house in Holiday Lake Estates was to install a water distiller.
The main reason was all the concern about nitrates in the Morgan Hill water, and my children were young at the time (we were warned that the nitrates/nitrites could affect young children). We were told this was the result of many years of farmers dumping fertilizer down wellheads among other things that caused this contamination.
Since that time I have enjoyed pure drinking water. The distiller maintains six gallons of distilled, pure water. The input water line is connected to my hot water line in my house. I don’t have to manually fill up the distiller every night to get distilled water; in other words the distiller creates water when the holding tank gets too low (below the six gallons). This is all done by water going into a boiling tank controlled by a float (similar to that in your toilet), the water then is boiled, re-condensed in cooling coils, and lastly collected in the holding tank (which also has a toilet like float to maintain its level). I have added one additional feature; an RV demand pump that allows me to pump pure water from the distiller holding tank to my kitchen sink and to provide water to my ice-maker in my refrigerator. Enough about how a distiller works.
The point is to recommend that people who are concerned about the perchlorate should purchase a distiller. Potassium perchlorate has a boiling point somewhere between 400-600 degrees fahrenheit. What this means is that since water boils at 212 F, the perchlorate will remain in the boiling tank and not be part of the water vapor that gets recondensed. This means that the perchlorate can be removed by distillation.
Don’t trust the water company to fix this problem soon. Take matters into your own hands and control what you and your family ingest into your bodies.
Don’t trust bottled water either. There are no specifications for purity content in bottled water. Someone can (and already has) sold tap water as bottled water. Some bottled water is distilled but most of it is created by reverse osmosis; I am not sure reverse osmosis process will remove perchlorate as distillation will.
I am a retired IBM engineer and would be happy to help people plan with distiller installation. My email address is jr*******@ho*****.com.
John R Simunic, Morgan Hill
Submitted Monday, Feb. 24 to ed****@gi************.com
