Ok, so sue me, I'm in a snit about brine discharge again. I found this article about another town considering a ban on salt water softeners. Dixon, to be specific. I admit I did not know exactly where Dixon is, but was quickly informed by Wikipedia that it is a town in Solano County, 23 miles north of Sacramento, California. Population a mere 16K. Sounds nice.
What is not nice is what's happening with their treated sewer water...
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Here's another one of those -"Uh Oh, Hmmm, salt seems to be a problem here.." articles. This one is from Texas, in a paper called the Community Impact Newspaper, which serves 8 communities in the central Texas area, north of Austin.
The article states that the water source changed for many residents and the new source is not as hard. Now residents need to be told to dial down the amount of salt spewed out from their water softeners, because the TDS (total dissolved solids) content of the water released back into the Colorado River is too high. For TDS read sodium, potassium and chloride - all 3 involved in water softening.
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