Hello I need some help interpretating my local water report. Now when it come to water an brewing i don’t know jack I like to keep it simple has humanly Possible an save my sanity.
DATE 4-3-17 4-10-17 4-17-17 4-25-17 Average
Free Chlorine Residual mg/L 0.00 0.05 0.00 0.00 0.01
Total Chlorine Residual mg/L 2.73 2.77 2.85 2.60 2.7
Monochloramine mg/L 2.57 2.52 2.81 2.45 2.59
Free Ammonia as N mg/L 0.06 0.05 0.01 0.02 0.04
Temperature oC 17.3 18.5 19.7 18.4 18.5
DO (%) mg/L 99.5 97.2 98.0 97.7 98.1
pH pH Units 8.32 8.27 8.50 8.30 8.35
Turbidity NTU 0.19 0.30 0.20 0.19 0.22
Alkalinity mg/L 40 40 38 36 38
Hardness mg/L 54 51 55 57 54
Carbon Dioxide mg/L 2 3 2 3 2
Specific Conductance µmhos 302 310 314 272 300
Fluoride mg/L 0.11 0.47 0.42 0.43 0.36
Chloride mg/L 19.6 33.0 33.6 33.5 29.9
Color CU 1 0 0 0 0
NO3 as N mg/L 0.47 0.33 0.26 0.21 0.32
Organic Carbon TOC mg/L 1.89 1.84 1.68 1.70 1.78
Phosphate, Ortho as PO4 mg/L 1.06 1.08 1.14 1.15 1.11
Solids, TDS mg/L 169 151 166 173 165
Sulfate mg/L 52.9 53.8 60.0 57.4 56.0
Chloride to Sulfate Ratio 0.37 0.61 0.56 0.58 0.53
Coliform, Total colonies/100mL <1 <1 <1 <1 <1
Coliform, Fecal colonies/100mL <1 <1 <1 <1 <1
HPC colonies/1 mL 0 1 0 1 0
Iron mg/L 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.00
Manganese mg/L 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Copper mg/L 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Lead mg/L 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
Zinc mg/L 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00
Aluminum mg/L 0.02 0.01 0.02 0.01 0.01
Calcium mg/L 5.4 5.2 5.2 4.7 5.1
Magnesium mg/L 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.1 3.4
Sodium mg/L 35.7 34.4 38.7 32.6 35.4
Potassium mg/L 3.4 3.2 3.2 3.0 3.2
I know some of you guy’s will say I need to use a brewing water calculator but I only have access to iPad mini so I am Limited to what I can do.
