Five gallon slow sand filter update

Posted on February 9, 2015 by filter_guy

We found the 5 gallon slow sand filter design to be inferior to the 55 gallon design. The five gallon filters just don’t work as well. They are less efficient at removing biological contamination at best; and actually introduce contamination at worst.

Another study totally not related to ours found basically the same results (the need for 2 separate containers because 1 five gallon container was not enough to provide adequate filtering):

http://faculty.mercer.edu/lackey_l/documents/CompletedThesis.pdf

(see page 56 in the conclusion section)

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1 Response to Five gallon slow sand filter update

  1. Jennifer Berkey says:
    February 10, 2015 at 8:03 pm

    Thanks a lot for this nice post on water filter. It’s an essential thing now. Because we all need to drink safe water. Good job.

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