chloramine is nothing new, most municipality water systems are going to be mandated to use it when the new federal drinking water gidelines come out. chlorine itself is a instantanious steralizer with no real residual effect so most places where the water has to travel a distance there is no chlorine left in your water when it gets to you, by using chloramine it insures the disinfectant propertys of the water last untill you use it protecting you from older pipe sections which may be contamanated.
Kamloops uses RO for its water, but also adds chloramine.
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Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic
Metro Vancouver discontinued chlorination of the Seymour source at Seymour Fall Dam on July 29th, 2010. When the twin tunnel component of the SCFP project is complete, the Plant will treat 1.8 billion litres of water from both the Seymour and Capilano sources. SCFP was constructed in the fall 2009, and is the largest of its kind in Canada. It includes the world’s largest ultraviolet disinfection system."
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the seymore water plant will use UV and Ozone and is and will still be using chlorine or chloramine, but at a reduced amount due to the UV and ozone. it will also be added at distrabution points. (it is writen right on the brochur for the plant.)
In victoria we have had chloramine for as long as I can remember and all I did was run different filters. for my system I ran a 25 to 1 micron absolute membrain (bigger 4x10") then I ran two carbon blocks, then an amonia guzzeler (home depot canuck rubber and a few other places have these. might be a different name but there for filtering out amonia.) then went into my RO and through my DI.
Steve
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