Anyone know...

The pH and water hardness in the Cheshire area? Bryn and I are moving to the Northwich/ Knutsford area in about 3 weeks, and I've refused to go without me tanks

I don't have a testing kit at the moment (well I do, but I'm fantastic at smashing the test tubes), and google has decided it doesn't want to tell me. I'm just trying to do a little bit of research before I lug them all over there, so I know how long to acclimatise them, if I need to take tank water, etc.

I don't know if we have any members in this area, but I thought it'd be worth an ask anyway Thanks to anyone who knows or has a rough idea

http://www.unitedutilities.com/waterquality.aspx

If you know your postcode type it in this section
http://www.unitedutilities.com/waterquality.aspx

I just looked up chinese resteraunt in knutsford and copied a postcode

grrrrrrrr ruddy link, this is a postcode for a chinese in knutsford, type it into the link and it gives you all the drinking water stats

WA16 6ED

See if this works...

Water supply name: Knutsford

Water supply code: Z310

Water source
The water supply to this area comes from the Lake District and from groundwater sources.

Water quality
The water supply to this area is very soft. The supply is low in naturally occurring fluoride and is not artificially fluoridated. For further information see link on left "key facts on water quality"

Quality control
There are strict regulations to ensure that drinking water meets the standards required by European Union legislation. We monitor the quality of water as it leaves our treatment works and service reservoirs to make sure that standards are being met. We also measure the quality of water as it reaches our customers. The region we supply is divided into 230 Water Supply Zones. The water supplied to a zone is usually from one water treatment works or service reservoir. All the test results are summarised in the Drinking Water Register, which can be viewed by selecting the "Further Details" button above.


Analysis Typical Value UK/EU limit Units
Hardness level very soft
Hardness Clarke 1.750 Clarke
Aluminium 30.0 200 µg Al/l
Calcium 8.83 mg Ca/l
Residual chlorine - Total 0.42 mg/l
Residual chlorine - Free 0.38 mg/l
Coliform bacteria 0 0 number/100ml
Colour 1.11 20 mg/l Pt/Co scale
Conductivity 64.5 2500 uS/cm at 20oC
Copper 0.0100 2 mg Cu/l
E.coli 0 0 number/100ml
Iron 15.8 200 µg Fe/l
Lead <0.673 25 µg Pb/l
Magnesium 0.813 mg Mg/l
Manganese 1.47 50 µg Mn/l
Nitrate 1.19 50 mg NO3/l
Sodium 4.73 200 mg Na/l


*Above copied from united utilities site

That is one handy site to know about *saved*
Cheers Star. Looks like it'll be very soft water with a pH of around 7ish, which is better than what we have were I am now.

I was just worried that the pH would be above 8, because I don't think Bryn would appreciate me spending loads on ways to try and lower it XD

Your welcome

Star to the rescue as always, lol!

Just took a little googling

I swear I am the most useless waste of space when trying to find anything on google