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    turbidity rising after chlorination.

    Thanks for the advice guys, yes the pink is ok as a light pink but not so much when its half way to purple. I think I may have discovered what happened we have 2 supply pumps feeding the wtp, but one of them is malfunctioning and our flow rate dropped nearly 38% meanwhile the kmno4 pump has...
  2. kevinh20

    turbidity rising after chlorination.

    yes i will have to check that, after the kmno4 is added to the raw it does sit in a retention chamber where it gets to sit and precipitate the water in the retention tuns brown of course but also there is a fairly distinct pink color from the kmno4.. I'm wondering if the pink should be much less...
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    turbidity rising after chlorination.

    Hi we are treating our water with manganese greensand and anthracite filters with kmno4 being added first to react with iron and manganese in a retention chamber. Once the water is filtered it is entering the cistern at about 0.07 ntu so it's quite clean right before it hits the cistern we...

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