Source Talk

New SourceCast is live. Episode 02: Old School Drilling Techniques with Marvin Glotfelty, a hydrogeologist who also holds a driller’s license. What we got into: A 14 inch casing that floated out of the ground Why you never weld through your rotary table Pulling 400 feet of lost casing with burlap and two buckets of sand Lost circulation, and why old cottonseed hull fixes sour a water well Keeping...

No signal in the basement? No problem. In Episode 21 of Source Talk, Jason Burger walks through three formulas every water treatment pro should have memorized, so you can run field math on the fly without an app: • 2.31: one PSI equals 2.31 feet of water column. Convert head to pressure and back in seconds. • Temperature: flip between Fahrenheit and Celsius fast for LSI and your chemistry. • Surfa...

Every single well system has a pressure relief device, whether or not is intentional. As a water professional, we get to pick where they go for our customers... In this episode we dive into the WHY of the pressure relief valve...

Changing the UV lamp every year? Good. What did you do with the quartz sleeve? A new lamp behind a dirty sleeve is like a floodlight behind a muddy windshield. Hardness, iron and manganese coat that glass, and UV light that can't get through the sleeve never reaches the water. The lamp can glow like new while your dose drops off. In this episode: ▸ Why the sleeve fouls, and what it does to you...

TODAY, WE DISCUSS THE CHEAPEST INSURANCE YOU CAN CARRY ON YOUR TREATMENT INSTALL FOR A WELL SYSTEM...

This week we are joined by Wayne Anderson of Black Opal to discuss all things carbon. the goal of this podcast is to equip the technician to work through water issues from Source to Service...

This wee we are covering part 2 of a very important topic; the heavy hitters for Fluoride Reduction in whole home filtration.

It's been a hot topic issue for years; the question is, as a water treatment professional, what's the best way to approach this polarizing conversation with the homeowner?

Your iron filter isn't failing. It's waiting. On this episode of Source Talk, we dig into why oxidation stalls out in a treatment train that looks right on paper — the media is correct, the contact time is there, the backwash is dialed in, and the water still comes through orange. The culprit is a parameter most techs never pull off the water report. Miss it, and no amount of media swaps o...

WHY DO CERTAIN WATER ISSUES COME AND GO? WHERE DOES THE NEED FOR TREATMENT BEGIN?

On this episode, we dive into why two houses, 200' away from one another can have entirely different sulfur issues.

This week, we are tackling the other side of the spectrum... Installing a monster tank on a tiny pump!!!

Pressure Tank Sizing... It's important.

City water... Pre-filter??? In this episode, we talk about the journey of water from source to service... (MUNICIPAL)

It turns out, somethings need to be brought back into the secret sauce. Today we discuss the three mysterious letters at the bottom of your Water Report: LSI.

Today, we are discussing UV disinfection...

Order in the treatment train is important, but there isn't a one-size fits all plan. Water is different from well to well, and situations are different from household to household. In this episode, we dive into the importance of laying out your systems in the right order!

Ferrous Iron is the invisible man of water treatment. Knowing what's going on in that tank is important, especially when it isn't working...

We're talking TFC on Source Talk....

Order is EVERYTHING!!! The way you layout your treatment train ought to align with the test and the math...

What happens when your math is right, your equipment is in alignment, and the water still stinks?

Carbon has a specific purpose and... there is a reason it doesn't have a Micron rating... tune in as we discuss.

TDS is one of the most misunderstood readings in the field. Today we strip off the marketing fluff and nail down a basic understanding.

In this episode we take a dive into answering the question of how you can have a low pH and a moderate alkalinity reading... Aren't they two sides of the same coin?

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