Water Results and Call for Well Group · 13 August 2007, 23:18 by Julie Loyd
This list is now complete.
COWLITZ SEEP (at the dock):
pH: 7.08
Nitrates: 5 ppm
Phenols: .23 ppm
Surfactants: 1.6 ppm
Cadmium: .14 ppm
TNC POND RESULTS:
pH: 7.14
Nitrates: 7 ppm
Phenols: .14 ppm
Surfactants: 1.2 ppm
Cadmium: .20 ppm
COOK’s POND
Nitrates: 6 ppm
Phosphates: 0 ppm
Phenols: 89.2 ppm
Surfactants: 1.1 ppm
Copper: 3.21 ppm
Lead: 0 ppm
Cadmium: .19 ppm
ETHIER WELL
Chloride: 22.7 ppm
Cadmium: .30 ppm
Mercury: 0.00 ppm
CAMPBELL WELL:
Cadmium: 1.7 (this is the highest reading of the wells tested)
HARRIS WELL
Chloride: 50 ppm
Cadmium: .08 ppm
BLETHEN WELL (They dynamited this well and dug 15 feet)
Cadmium .65 ppm
Mercury 0.0 ppm
Chlorides 22.7 ppm
Lead: 0 ppm
CHUCK LUDWIG’s DRILLED WELL (Drilled 60 feet, water is 35’)
Lead: 0 ppm
Nitrates: 15 ppm
Phosphates: .05 ppm
LUDWIG’s MORNING TAP WATER
Lead: .1 ppm
Copper: .56 ppm
LUDWIG’s LATER IN THE DAY TAP WATER
Lead: 0 ppm
Copper: .06 ppm
ROBARTS WELL (60’ well with positive flow at the bottom of the Mail Bay slope. By August, though, it usually has stopped flowing.)
Chloride: 104.8 ppm
Sulfides: 0.02 ppm (Despite the rotten egg smell, but our noses detect sulfur very well. In over 200 samples in SJC, this is the second highest reading.)
Cadmium: .22 ppm
ROBART’s BRITA FILTERED WELL
Chloride: 48.8 ppm
Cadmium: .15 ppm
GRABER’s WELL (suspected saltwater intrusion. In 40 years it tasted this salty only once before. This could be from the many storms this year, or from too many wells.)
Chloride: 730 ppm (Above about 500 is no longer potable.)
Cadmium: .67 ppm
LOYD’s HOT WATER HEATER:
Cadmium: .73 ppm
Copper: .27 ppm
Nitrates: 13 ppm
LOYD’s BRITA FILTERED COLD WATER:
Cadmium: .08 ppm
EASTSIDE POND
Phenols: .10 ppm
Surfactants: 1.1 ppm
Lead: 0 ppm
Cadmium: .22 ppm
Russel will be back again with more kits to train people who want to organize regular well testing. Trends may show up and would be of interest. Each kit is tailored to a particular contaminant so a group should form to take recommendations on what we want to test for. Gretchen W is currently the go-to lady because she was interested and I’m volunteering her. Once we decide what to test, Russel will hold the training session.
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Water Quality with Russel Barsh, August 10, 2007 EPA and Others on Water