Champlain Valley water analysis, Spring 2008
As a South Burlington homeowner (water-bill-payer, really), the Champlain Water District sends me a report about how their water is the best water. Of note to me as a homebrewer is the analysis of certain chemical properties of the water. Since a few google searches for this information basically turned up my previous post and not the actual source of the data, here’s the data:
- aluminum: < 0.06ppm
- color: 2 units
- alkalinity: 57-74 ppm as CaCO3
- calcium hardness: 45-56 ppm as CaCO3
- total hardness: 61 ppm as CaCO3
- chloride: 17ppm
- foaming agents: < 0.1 ppm
- total organic carbon: 2.04 pm (1.49-2.61)
- conductivity: 192 micro-S/cm (156-194)
pH: 7.62 (7.39-7.79)
total disolved solids: 113 ppm
- iron: < 0.01ppm
- manganese: .007ppm
- sodium: 7.5ppm
- potassium: 1.31 ppm
- sulfate: 15 ppm
- silver: < 0.05ppm
- silica: 1.4ppm
- silicon: 0.67 ppm
- bromide: < 0.010 ppm
- iodide: < 1 ppm
- flouride: 1.01 ppm (0.74 - 1.28)
- ammonium ion: 0.15 ppm (0.01 - 0.32)
