Covington, St. Tammany Parish · PWS ID LA1103149
Christwood water carries chlorine at 2.4 parts per million, and it tests soft at 3.5 milligrams per liter, about 0.2 grains. The white film people here find on glasses and fixtures is the dissolved minerals the water carries, and a softener would never touch that. The published report also shows a pH of 5.98, on the acidic side.
Beneath the surface
St. Tammany Parish - Bedico-Faubourg-Coquille · PWS ID LA1103149 · 2025 water quality report
Here is your system: whole-home carbon for the chlorine at every tap, plus reverse osmosis at the kitchen sink for the water you drink, cook with, and freeze. A pH neutralizer goes in ahead of it to bring the water back to balance. It is the setup we put in most homes on this water, and it earns its keep every single day.
Your water arrives with chlorine in it, at 2.4 parts per million. That is the disinfectant St. Tammany Parish - Bedico-Faubourg-Coquille uses, and it is the taste people notice in coffee, in ice, and in the first glass of the day. Carbon takes it out at every tap in the house.
The white film on glasses and fixtures is the dissolved minerals the water carries, including sodium at 58.9 milligrams per liter, drying wherever the water evaporates. Reverse osmosis at the kitchen sink gives you clean drinking water, clear ice, and spot-free glasses at that tap.
The water here is groundwater, pumped from one of 9 wells. The water runs acidic at pH 5.98. Acidic water works on copper plumbing, which is where blue-green stains around drains come from. A neutralizer brings the pH back to balance ahead of everything else.
Tell us your address and we pull the report for the system that actually serves it, then put the recommendation and the price in writing before any work starts. A licensed plumber does the install.
