Town of Cedarburg wells: what to order from the lab
Cedarburg Light and Water posts a hardness range for city homes. A house on its own well out in the Town of Cedarburg gets only the tests its owner orders, so the useful thing is knowing what to order and how to read the result.
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A lab result is not required for a price, but it is the closest a well house can get to the utility's published figure. Ordering the test first means the call starts from your water instead of a guess.
Ask a state-certified lab for hardness and, if it is offered, iron: some wells carry iron alongside hardness, and it belongs in the conversation. Add bacteria, which the Wisconsin DNR advises checking on a private well once a year or more; nitrate can ride on the same order, though neither has anything to do with the softener.
Setting your result beside the city's grains
The city publishes in grains: about 21 to 24. A lab may report your well in milligrams per liter instead, and dividing by 17.1 turns that into grains so the two can be compared.
Higher or lower than the city tells you where your well stands. It does not change the method: the softener for a well house always starts from the well's figure, not the city's.
Reading the sheet, line by line
The hardness figure is what the softener is sized and set from. The iron line is there so the call has the whole picture of your water. The bacteria and nitrate results are about the well alone, and they matter whether or not a softener ever goes in.
Keep the whole report and read us the hardness line exactly as printed, unit included, along with the iron line if there is one. The rest of the sheet is your well's own record, worth filing for next year's comparison.
The yearly check a softener never replaces
A softener's design has nothing to do with bacteria or nitrate. Whatever ends up by your main line, the DNR's yearly bacteria test for a private well keeps its own place on the calendar.
Calling before the results are back
That works too. The price is worked out from the number of people in the house and where the main line runs, and on installation day the plumber measures the tap before making any connection, so the softener is set to your well rather than to the city's range.
Common questions
Which lab should test a Town of Cedarburg well?
A state-certified lab, the kind that runs the bacteria test the Wisconsin DNR advises each year. Ask whether hardness and iron can go on the same order.
Do I need new results if I already have an old report?
An old report still helps on the call. If it is several years old, a fresh test is worth ordering anyway, if only for the yearly bacteria check.
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