On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 16:18:23 -0500, "NetMax"
wrote:

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Now, a year later, the water coming from the tap has a pH of 8.3!
Even though the hardeness levels have remained the same.
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What on earth are they adding to the water that is causing this?
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Caustic soda is what my municipality adds to bump the pH up.

NetMax

Thanks, I had about given up on an answer-short of taking it to a lab.

Any ideas on counteracting this, short of R/O-DI or peat filtering?

Greg