WATER- Sun Aug 29th 9 am Denver survival co-op

[Wulf202]

Since the dismal turnout for the first meeting, I'm just going to do my thing and leave an open invitation.

Topic: water treatment

Location: Crown hill park in Lakewood park near Wheatridge senior high school and walk the trail directly south of the ball field till you hit water. Look around for a 6'4" guy carrying 5 gallon buckets for pond water and various methods of treatment.

Time: Sunday August 29th 9am sharp-10:45

Gear required: 1 Open mind, dress for the elements

Optional gear: Lawn chair, note book, personal water treatment gear, personal tasting glass if you so choose.

Cost: $0 (donations are accepted)

I'll be test running several basic and higher end filtration or treatments for the lovely pond water, I will be tasting each along with clarity grading and chemical tests for the chlorine based ones. If you choose to taste it you also take the risks of whatever that treatment doesn't catch.

-Pur Hiker pro
-Calcium Hydrochloride (pool shock)
-Store bought bleach
-iodine
-Pasteurizing
-Beta-dine
-Possibly boiling
-Possibly Berkey black filter
-potable aqua w/taste killer and w/o
-Control of greeley tap water (no joke it comes from one of the better aquifers in CO) emergency bag water and store bought bottle.

I'll try to provide the best pro/con sheet I can find for the test methods.

If you want to RSVP you can email me at wulf202 at hotmail dot com

If you're bringing any treatment kit I'll try to do some research on it.

Things that would be really cool to try;
Steripen
Stale water (just rotated mine doh)

[Irving]

That's pretty cool of you to do. I hope someone shows up to learn a thing or two. Very nice of you to do.

[gnihcraes]

was just talking to the neighbor about this. I'll try to make it and drag him along.

Rotated my water storage not long ago too...

[Wulf202]

bump for this weekend, slight addition to the directions, once you hit the water, go to the left (east) where there's a nice stand of shade trees at the edge of the water.

[Gritty]

I prefer Berkeys and Katadyns. They seem to work the best for me.

[gnihcraes]

Gathered some good information and had some great water this morning. Thanks Wulf202!

Drank some of this:


after doing some of this: