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But Our Family Has Always Drank the Water Here

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When consulting with well water clients, I quite often hear people voicing concerns about iron staining or really hard water, maybe some colour staining or odour issues – but what I also hear is that families have lived on the property for years and years and if the water was good enough for grandpa to drink, why would I need some kind of purifier so I can drink it? 

"If it was good enough for my grandparents, it is good enough for me!"

While on the surface, this makes sense, when you dig a little deeper, it is easy to see we don't live in the same world our grandparents did.  There are thousands upon thousands of drugs, chemicals and additives we are forced to deal with every day – there's a good chance the grandpa drinking the well water didn't drink it from a plastic cup because plastic may not have been invented yet!

In a rural area, you may not be overly concerned with pharmaceuticals and those kind of chemicals – but… what about pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and fertilizers?  There are thousands of types that weren't even imagined when grandpa drew water from your well.  We definitely live in a different world now and one thing we have to take seriously is our health.  (Grandpa probably didn't live in an era where he knew many people that got cancer either – that is a product of our unnatural environment!)

The fact is, when you draw water from a private well, there is no city scientist, no government agency – no one but you to ensure the water you drink is safe for your family.  Having pure, safe and clean water is not only easy, but also affordable.

250,000 people in farm areas in California were recently affected by excessive nitrate levels in the ground water.  This problem is new – it didn't exist there a few years ago – but with the increasing application of chemicals in their environment, unsafe drinking water is the result.  The problem has no taste, no odour, nor any colour – nitrate problems are is easily detectable with a field test kit, and easily removed with most of the drinking water systems we provide.  Once an on-site purification system is installed, you have protection from nitrates, arsenic, lead, and thousands and thousands of possible chemical threats to your family's health.

Septic Failures Force Residents to Move

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I read an article last week about 3 houses in California where the residents have been forced to move from their homes because septic systems had failed and the owners were unable to repair them.

These people are victims of a system that doesn’t completely understand how this natural process is supposed to work. Without having inspected the situation, its impossible to tell, but it sure sounds like a case where these people could be helped out rather inexpensively.

We became interested in the septic/wastewater treatment industry the way most people would, I guess – because we had a septic system that had some problems. We searched out a solution that didn’t involve a backhoe and a $25,000 price tag. What we found was an invention by Mr. Jerry Fife in California, a system called “Pirana.” Since installing, our field has been remediated to the point where we no longer have the pooling in the grass area above our septic field.

The problems with the biomat were not all that difficult to resolve and now, as long as we keep the system maintained annually, the septic tank and drainfield connected to it will have an indefinite life span. The Pirana system worked so well, that when we found out the Northern Alberta dealership owners had a falling out, we jumped at the chance to take over where they left off.

Now, costly replacement and repairs to septic tanks and the drainfields connected to them can be avoided. In fact, within just a day or two, all odours in the tank are almost completely eliminated, and within a few months, repairs propagate into the drainfield and the system repairs itself back to a normal operation.

With minimal upkeep, this aerobic system should keep a septic system operating smoothly pretty much forever. Depending upon conditions, owners may even expect to reduce the frequency of “honey wagon visits” when they get the solids in their tank pumped out!