I missed putting up the water quality numbers from this spring, but in the mean time it turns out the Champlain Water District has the Water Quality Reports up on the web. Unfortunately, they’re huge PDFs since they seem to be simply bitmap scans of the paper report. :(
In any case, here’s the relevant homebrewer water quality details:
| Aluminum | 0.056 mg/L |
| Alkalinity | 57-74 ppm as CaCO3 |
| Calcium Hardness | 45-56 ppm as CaCO3 |
| Total Hardness | 61 ppm as CaCO3 (3.6 grains/gal) |
| Chloride | 17 ppm |
| Foaming Agents | less than 0.1ppm |
| Total Organic Carbon (TOC) | 2.10 ppm (1.49-2.74) |
| Conductivity | 182 µS/cm (158-202) |
| pH | 7.66 (7.4-7.94) |
| Total Dissolved Solids | 113 ppm |
| Iron | less than 0.01ppm |
| Manganese | .006 mg/L (0 – 0.023) |
| Sodium | 7.5ppm |
| Potassium | 1.31 ppm |
| Sulfate | 15 ppm |
| Silver | less than 0.005 ppm |
| Silica | 1.4 ppm |
| Silicon | 0.67 ppm |
| Bromide | less tahn 0.010 ppm |
| Iodide | less than 1 ppm |
| Flouride | 0.96 mg/L (0.71 – 1.19) |
| Ammonium Ion | 0.12 ppm (0.02-0.23) |
I had a pressing need for mysql-5.1.40 to be installed for work reasons a couple of weeks ago, and found the state of mysql releases in gentoo to be lacking. I cobbled together the following ebuild using the binary RPM distribution from mysql.com. It should probably be called “mysql-bin”, but whatever.
inherit eutils rpm
# http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/MySQL-server-5.1.40-0.glibc23.x86_64.rpm/from/pick
MY_P=MySQL-server-${PV}
SRC_URI="http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/MySQL-server-${PV}-0.glibc23.x86_64.rpm
http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/MySQL-client-${PV}-0.glibc23.x86_64.rpm
http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/MySQL-shared-${PV}-0.glibc23.x86_64.rpm
http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/MySQL-devel-${PV}-0.glibc23.x86_64.rpm"
DESCRIPTION="MySQL-5.1.40 RPM"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.mysql.com"
LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="amd64"
IUSE=""
src_install() {
dobin usr/bin/*
dosbin usr/sbin/*
dolib usr/lib64/*
insinto /usr/include/mysql
doins usr/include/mysql/*
insinto /usr/share/aclocal/mysql
doins usr/share/aclocal/mysql.m4
dodoc usr/share/doc/MySQL-server-5.1.40/*
doman usr/share/man/man1/*
doman usr/share/man/man8/*
insinto /usr/share/mysql
doins usr/share/mysql/*
insinto /usr/share/mysql/charsets
doins usr/share/mysql/charsets/*
insinto /usr/share/mysql/english
doins usr/share/mysql/english/*
#/etc/logrotate.d
#/etc/logrotate.d/mysql
}
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:
