Carl, I rent my RO unit from Culligan for about $50/month. This provides me
with the 60--80 gallons/week of water I need, plus drinking water for my
family as well as my in-laws who come by with 5gallon water jugs for
refills. :)
Anyway, I have my unit producing water with only 5ppm TTD, and the ratio of
product to waste water is only 1:1, not bad I think. I route the waste water
into a trough by the greenhouse which serves as a small watering hole for
coyotes and javelinas (wild pigs).
>Last weekend I was at my parents' house, which happens to be located on a
>lake. I was down the row of cottages fishing off of a neighbors dock (into
>GREAT surprise it was a Utric. The depth that area is ~15 feet deep and has
Jeffrey, where did you say this lake is (what state). When you looked at the
plant were there two types of branches? What I mean is...
1)Were all the long ropy branches pretty much the same, floating free in
the water with lots of bladders on the leaves...
2)Some of the ropy branches had very few bladders, and looked just like
lakeweed, while descending from these branches were other branches which
had fewer (or no) green leafy parts but many bladders. The second kind
of branches are often anchored in the soil and are broken off if the plant
is yanked out of the water to vigorously.
Curious...
Barry