The Love’s Point well draws from an aquifer
apparently connected to nearby Thurston Lake.
This photo provides an accurate depiction of the water color
This photo shows the Love’s Point House pool filled with un-treated well water.
The pool is not normally filled
due to leaks and the expense of processing water.
Though registering on the alkaline side of the pH scale,
and is highly turbid with a colloidal clay,
the well water has proven suitable for agriculture and landscaping use.
However, for domestic use, the well water must be clarified.
Love’s Point domestic water is processed in two phases:
1. Clarification
2. Purification
Clarification
• Sediment suspended in the Love’s Point
well water is too finely grained to be
effectively filtered.
• It must be clarified by mixing the water
with a flocculant, i.e. an polymer additive
that attracts small particles into larger “clumps”
that can be then effectively filtered or gravity settled.
• The Love’s Point well water is primitively processed by:
1. manually activating transfer pumping from
well to treatment tank
2. manually dosing with a non-toxic flocculant
derived from crustacean shells.
3. manually activating several mixing processes
4. manually activating transfer of clarified water
to the purification/storage tank.
• Required frequency of the process depends entirely on water usage which can vary widely from user to user and from season to season. Storage tank levels must be monitored regularly (even daily) until a pattern is noticed. Historically, with four light users, processing was required every 4-6 days. With two light users, every 8-12 days.
Schematic of Clarification Proccessing Equipment
Sample Log of Clarifying Process
Purification
Clarified water is pumped into a 2,500 gallon storage tank where it is Ozone treated using a O3 bubbler.
This Ozone treatement also “polishes” the clarifiction process.
