Well water and septic systems, always a fun combination!
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About 20 years ago in my town, it was discovered that there was a plume of gas that had leaked from an old gas station, and that MTBE was detectable in the ground water. About 3 miles away, a bunch of homes in a section of town that lacked municipal water had their wells tested by the state DEP, andāsure enoughāthose wells were contaminated with MTBE.
A project to extend the water mains to that rural part of the township was begun, but it took a couple of years to complete. Until it was completed the township supplied bottled water to those homeowners.
The system I have to remove radon also removes MTBE.
Ah, but you and I live in the civilized state of NJ, where those āpeskyā government agencies actually look after the well being of the residents.
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I am very rural. Nothing industrial or commercial nearby. My well water tests just fine. Itās been like that my whole life, and thus always on a well. Growing up in upstate-ish NY the only issues were with very hard water, so always with a water softener. In central VA, I have some minor sediment issues, but nothing over the top.
The septic I could certainly do without, but itās what you get if you want to live in the woods away from the hustle & bustle.
During the Nixon administration my father was the chief water engineer at the PHS. When Nixon feared his water had been poisoned the PHS sent him to test it. A limousine took him to the WH. An aide took him to the safe in which the Presidential water was stored. It was clean, of course. My father wanted to tell the aide that the safest water in town was the public supply: 600,000 people drink it all the time before it gets to the WH. But he didnāt.
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Donāt forget military installations. They are often huge polluters. Iām not saying your water is polluted, but it might be worth gettin a test if you havenāt already. I do radon tests occasionally even though Iāve never found more than a trace amount.
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No military installations either. Iām due to have it tested again, but over 25+ years itās been fine. Just the sediment which a basic filter takes care of just fine.
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I drink well water close to a nuclear power plant, kinda wanting to grow a tail and wings, hoping to be a super heroā¦ 
The best water I have ever tasted is from the mountains in east TN and western NC, very cold out of the groundā¦
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The tap water here is delicious. I do filter it through the fridge though.
Both San Franciso and New York City have excellent tasting tap water. San Jose, not as good.
We used to use the water from our very expensive fridge from 1998ish, and even only used out of the door water for our purebred puppy (she wasnāt cheap either), well after a couple of years I decided to change out the filter with the spare one we got when it was new, come to find out it was the filter that should have been installed when 1st hooked upā¦ Yes all that fuss about only giving the dog the filter water we found out it was basically straight out of the tapā¦ Havenāt cared sinceā¦ Then after having a Pit that kept playing with the large water bowl and dumping water all over the floor, the doggies all started just drinking out of the toilet, couldnāt get them to use the water bowl anymore muchā¦ yes they are kept flushedā¦ lolā¦ It is funny when you really need to go and have to wait on 3 dogs lined up to get a drink before you can go, then the freaking cats started doing the same, now you walk by and a cat is drinking out of the toilet while 2 Pits and a mut are all waiting their turn for a drinkā¦ But now the old man will come and bug the crap out of us to come flush the toilet nobody uses much just to have fresh cold water in it again (different house)ā¦ You canāt make this stuff upā¦
I had to add some water to my car the other dayā¦ (you know, just bringing it back to cars).
The water I added to my car came from my well. I know itās best to use distilled in the cooling system, but my well water doesnāt have a lot of crap in it. And if Iām going to build a still it will be for making whiskey.
I drink a lot of water. Most municipal water Iāve had is lousy compared to good well water.
I wonder if the OP will ever come back and get this thread back on track?
This idea that municipal water is some answer to clean water because they test oftenā¦ I still clearly recall the municipal water issue in Milwaukee area when I lived there. It was contaminated with Cryptosporidium and unsafe to drink. Couldnāt drink soda bottled in the area or ice at restaurants etc. It was a huge deal that lasted a pretty long time until they flushed it all out. Meanwhile, my well water continued to be fine to drink. I had friends asking to fill up jugsā¦
After moving to the right coast, I had municipal water for a time. Got a notice in the mail, the mail!, that the water was above a number of test limits and to stop drinking it. Seems the automatic dispensers stopped working and nobody noticedā¦
Iāll take well water over city water any dayā¦
Savages!!! Savages I tell you, you donāt belong here not living in the civilized world!!! Go back to your cavesā¦ 
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We eat chicken off the bone, candy bars with our fingers and fill up with generic gasoline to boot. 
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And occasionally use the gas in your car to avoid it going stale.
I would not store gas in the garage. Keep the containers outside in the shade covered by an inverted garbage container
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Our city water is from wells. One well has been shut down for years because of waste chemicals dumped over the years. Now Minneapolis pulls their Warner out of the river. Used to be the sewage depository both up and down the river, but they all test and filter. Then there is bottled water that they never say where it comes from. My dad had a well with terrible water. When he died I had to replace the broken septic system before I could sell the house. In the civil war many died from dysentery after drinking water from creeks that horses and cattle walked through.
Then there were years of fighting over flouride which has come full circle now. I donāt like water and try to kill the tap water with coffee. I donāt trust the experts anymore after they keep changing their minds. But if youāre not dead yet, must be doing something right.
This place is really nuts. That comment was from me not old mopar guy. And I donāt know who puts the full page Buick commercials in here that locks everything up for 20 seconds, but save your breath,
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Your āOur city water is from wellsā post above showed you (Bing) as the poster, at least here at my computer , not Mopar Guy. Iāve seen my posts placed under a different posterās name too recently; but this seems to visible only be to me as the poster, not others. Reloading the page shows me as the actual poster.
The same seems to apply to ālikesā that appear at first to register to someone else. Reloading the page shows them placed w/the correct poster. Usually. Iāve had the whole-screen ad experience too. It seems to go away pretty fast though. The slow response keyboard takes some getting used to ā¦ lol ā¦
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