After all our looking at blueprints and maps, we figured out that we do indeed get our water from Lake Michigan and there is this building there we think does something with our water. That's the purification plant!
We weren't convinced as to what actually happens there, so we decided to go through with the water tests to reveal just exactly what the differences where between the water samples. We uncovered the following:
1. Some things (dissolved stuff) are at a lower value in the lake than in our tap. This means they are added somehow between the lake and our homes.
2. Other things are at a higher value in the lake than in our tap. This means they must be removed somehow, again, between the lake and our homes.
3. The stuff that's either added or removed is REALLY small, since we couldn't see any of it in either the tap water samples we took or the lake water samples Mrs. Brinza did.
This is leading us into thinking...
What exactly happens at the purification plant to make our water drinkable and safe?
We weren't convinced as to what actually happens there, so we decided to go through with the water tests to reveal just exactly what the differences where between the water samples. We uncovered the following:
1. Some things (dissolved stuff) are at a lower value in the lake than in our tap. This means they are added somehow between the lake and our homes.
2. Other things are at a higher value in the lake than in our tap. This means they must be removed somehow, again, between the lake and our homes.
3. The stuff that's either added or removed is REALLY small, since we couldn't see any of it in either the tap water samples we took or the lake water samples Mrs. Brinza did.
This is leading us into thinking...
What exactly happens at the purification plant to make our water drinkable and safe?
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