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RE: acid rain and catchment thread - Kenney - 06-24-2018
Damn. Now I have to go check the fence. Thanks for the info guys.
RE: acid rain and catchment thread - 1voyager1 - 06-24-2018
A friend has a house that's only yards from fissure 8.
It's one of those metal buildings sold as being farm buildings or houses.
I've seen them on CL.
She's talking about having it moved.
I'm wondering if it may have too much damage from the sulphur gasses to be worth moving.
It will need to be assessed.
RE: acid rain and catchment thread - terracore - 07-02-2018
Caught some rain during today's bad air in upper Orchidland and tested pH: 3.0. Our catchment water is currently reading 5.0.
Did I read on here that one can use calcium carbonate instead of baking soda for neutralizing the acid in the water? (I thought I had read that it was preferable?)
50# bag at the farmer's co-op is $6.00 and no sales tax.
RE: acid rain and catchment thread - Midnight Rambler - 07-02-2018
Won't calcium carbonate precipitate out? Seems like that would be bad.
RE: acid rain and catchment thread - geochem - 07-02-2018
It will neutralize the acid - but works more slowly (need more contact time to react with the acid) and may not be food grade - might be fine, but you wouldn't know... As another posted, it could deposit calcium on fixtures and would make the water "harder".
RE: acid rain and catchment thread - terracore - 07-03-2018
Would the filters catch any of it?
Pretty sure it's not food grade. Though the state vet did recommend leaving it out for the livestock to freely access to help deal with the acid rain, ash, etc.