| I hope it's OK to weigh in on this issue. I live just west of the west end of Lake Erie and like you when it rain's the wind comes mostly from the east and north east, but you have to remember that the rain fall is from farther west and comes across all the industrial states. That's why the problem with acid rain killing forest's mainly out along the NE coast. The rain gathered from roof's pick's up molecules of chemical's to produce the roofing material. As a retired long time truck driver, I have hauled some of the stuff that goes into making things like roofing material and some of that stuff was pretty nasty, so I had to wear protective clothing when around it. Water that comes off the roof maybe fine to water your house plants and flower beds with, but I sure don't want to drink it or use it in a pond with fish. If your pond was just for a water garden, then fine. I'm no chemist so can't tell you exactly how and what reaches into any rain barrel's. People prepared to do survival would catch rain with tarp's and then use iodine before drinking it. It tastes awful in my opinion. What I do is run water through filters like a special porous ceramic before using it to drink or cook or would use iodine to kill off any microscopic bugs in it that could make a human sick and die. I have such a set up, but it would not remove 100% of the chemical's in water that would pass through the filters and the filters are very expensive. They can only last just so long before you have to replace them. The one's I have (4 of them) are about 2 foot tall and have charcoal in the middle which the water has to filter through before it goes down in the bottom of the collector. Mine looks like a huge coffee maker like you see in catered affairs. It holds 2 1/2 gallons on the top where the filters are and the water go's into the 3 gallon capacity bottom and is all gravity fed. But it's not designed to filter water for a fish pond. Something you could do is collect a sample and take it to the county extension center or health department in your county (in the US) and have it tested or contact a local lab (probably listed in the phone book) to have the raw water sample tested. They can break it down and tell you what's in the water and will give you a recommendation as to what you need to do to treat it. But beware because they might give you an expensive list of what to do about it. Or they'll tell you to cap your well because the water is not fit for use. Just my my humble opinion -- Shadow -------Original Message------- Dr Mann, | ||
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