I recently purchased a home with a Kinetco Model 60 which is approx 8 years old and was previously being leased. It will cost $750 to buy the unit outright. My question: is this a good deal or will the money be better spent on a new system? I am first time posting in this forum and would appreciate any input. :confused:

Professional lab water analysis 7/17/2008 Arsenic, Total <5 ug/L E. coli <1 MPN/100mL Chloride, Total 16 mg/L Copper Total <0.05 mg/L Iron Total 10 mg/L Flouride <0.4 mg/L Hardness by Calculation 20 mg/L Manganese Total 0.57 mg/L Sodium Total 12 mg/L Nitrite-Nitrogen Total <0.2 mg/L Nitrate-Nitrogen Total <2.0 mg/L Lead Total <0.010 mg/L pH electrometric 5.7 Total Coliform Colilert MPN <1 MPN/100ml my comments: This is a private well of 180ft drilled in 9/04. Water is clear when first drawn but will turn rusty if left to sit open or heated. Precipitated iron will settle but very slowly, takes longer than a week. We do not have a pool and do not water our lawn. There is a water filter system in place professionally installed that consists of a variable Stenner pump injecting a measured amount of bleach before an 80G pressure tank (Well Mate). This precipitates the iron. Then a filter tank of 2.0 cubic feet of Filter Ag with a backwashing filter head (Water Soft) to remove the precipitated iron. Then to a 2.5 cubic foot tank with a mixture of 2.0 cubic feet of activated carbon and 0.5 cubic feet of calcite to remove the residual Chlorine and to raise the pH. The level of residual chlorine is monitored by sampling the water after the Filter Ag tank and before the carbon/calcite tank, I typically maintain a residual of 1.0 mg/L. We get a significant amount of precipitated iron that will bleed through the Filter Ag tank, especially at high flow rates. I do not like the fact that the Filter Ag tank backwashes with "dirty" water. I do not like the fact that the pH problem is not addressed before trying to precipitate the iron. I have added a draw off valve at the very bottom of the 80G pressure tank so that I can periodically remove any iron sludge that accumulates in the bottom of the tank. I do not have any confidence in the local person who designed and installed the system and would appreciate any suggestions you may have as to any additional equipment or changes to the system. Some specific questions/ideas that I have: 1. Could I fit a double Stenner head to the pump so that I can inject bleach as well as soda ash to raise the pH at the same time the iron is oxidized? Do those reactions work together? 2. Could I change the Filter Ag tank to a mixture of Filter Ag and calcite to correct the pH at the same time as the precipitated iron is being removed? Does calcite have any filtering properties? Could the filter tank be 100% calcite? Can I filter and correct the pH at the same time? 3. Is 2.0 cubic feet of filtering media sufficient to remove 10 mg/L of iron? Should that tank be bigger? 4. How much activated carbon is needed to remove a chlorine residual of 1.0 mg/L? Dave