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Wright's Edisto Island Home
Many homeowners, business owners, schools and others are located in
rural areas. The vast majority of these folks use well water from
shallow aquifers or from one of several deep water aquifers, depending
on where they are geographically.In the case of the Wrights beautiful
new home on Edisto Island, S.C., finding suitable water here was a bit
of an unusual case. Unusual because normally, the shallow aquifers, 70
feet deep or less, are low in salinity. The shallower wells may contain
iron, hydrogen sulfide gas or other typical secondary problems, but high
salinity or TDS (total dissolved solids), is a problem in deeper coastal
aquifers. All of our shallow test wells on the Wrights property were
very high in TDS. We then choose to drill into the Santee-Limestone
Aquifer, that runs from the South Santee River in northern Charleston
County to a point somewhere south of Edisto Island. While the water in
this aquifer increases in TDS from its northern beginning to its
southern end, the TDS levels were still lower than that in the shallow
well aquifers on the Wright's property. The most cost effective means of
reducing total dissolved solids is reverse osmosis. The Wrights system
consist of a 1500 GPD R/O unit with a 1000 gallon holding tank and
ozonation for keeping the water sanitized. Now, the Wrights have bottled
water throughout their new home. Reverse Osmosis is a widely used
treatment technology in the water treatment industry. Go to our
applications page and click on the 'Reverse Osmosis' in bold blue
letters to see other applications for this exciting technology.
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