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Watertank Slime
"silverdragon" wrote in message
... Hey my wife and I purchased a Columbia 29 Mk II and there is some green slime on the walls of the aluminum water tank under the V-Berth I was wondering what the best way to disinfect and clean it out. Is there some sort of cleaner or bleach water mixture that we can put in the tank to kill what ever is growing down there? Yes there is. Put a cup of household bleach (non-scented) into it, fill it to the top and let it sit a day or two. Then pump or drain it all out. Refill with fresh water. On the other hand, you might consider just leaving it be. I drink water out of my bicycle water bottle daily, the insides of which are green with algae. I never bleach it out. I figure the algae puts extra oxygen in the water and I like the taste of algae water better than plastic water. The algae seems to coat the plastic and the water tastes great. It goes down smooth. But, I was raised on a farm in the Midwest with cisterns for drinking water filled by galvanized steel barn roofs. Dug deep into the red clay and lined with stacked white stones - no concrete. We had algae, frogs and fish in our cisterns but never have I had better tasting water than rain water-filled, bio-diverse cistern water. People these days have a fetish about their water. They need to get over it. Wilbur Hubbard |
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Watertank Slime
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:52:48 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote: "silverdragon" wrote in message ... Hey my wife and I purchased a Columbia 29 Mk II and there is some green slime on the walls of the aluminum water tank under the V-Berth I was wondering what the best way to disinfect and clean it out. Is there some sort of cleaner or bleach water mixture that we can put in the tank to kill what ever is growing down there? Yes there is. Put a cup of household bleach (non-scented) into it, fill it to the top and let it sit a day or two. Then pump or drain it all out. Refill with fresh water. On the other hand, you might consider just leaving it be. I drink water out of my bicycle water bottle daily, the insides of which are green with algae. I never bleach it out. I figure the algae puts extra oxygen in the water and I like the taste of algae water better than plastic water. The algae seems to coat the plastic and the water tastes great. It goes down smooth. But, I was raised on a farm in the Midwest with cisterns for drinking water filled by galvanized steel barn roofs. Dug deep into the red clay and lined with stacked white stones - no concrete. We had algae, frogs and fish in our cisterns but never have I had better tasting water than rain water-filled, bio-diverse cistern water. People these days have a fetish about their water. They need to get over it. Wilbur Hubbard It sort of reminds me of the story about the UN Group that was stationed in Arabia, at a desert oasis. The oasis had a great pool of water that was never failing and Arabs came from miles around to take the waters. Of course the watering hole served the local village as a source of water for washing, bathing, watering the herds and even for bad little boys to play in, and the camels and goats did what camels do and goats do what goats do, and mothers washed little babies that have done what they do and the dirty little boys often had contests to see who could do what dirty little boys do, further, and the waters in the never failing pool had a certain color and odor. The UN Team after viewing the sole water source for the entire area with horror and amid much report writing in which terms like cholera and water born diseases were mentioned, gained approval to make a new water source and contracted with a well drilling company who flew a drilling rig in and set up. For weeks and weeks they drilled and at last one day; water! A stream of clear, fresh, sparkling, cold water flowed form the well head, and the UN Group was proud and wrote reports on the successful surmounting of yet another age old problem. Some days later the Group noticed that not a single Arab was using the new, clear, fresh, sparkling, cold water and sent an emissary to question the ruling Sheikh as to what was going on. The Sheikh simply said, "the water has no flavor, it may not be good". Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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