acid rain and catchment thread

[Kenney]

Damn. Now I have to go check the fence. Thanks for the info guys.

[1voyager1]

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.

[terracore]

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.

[Midnight Rambler]

Won't calcium carbonate precipitate out? Seems like that would be bad.

[geochem]

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".

[terracore]

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.