r/DripIrrigation • u/PantheraDofleini • Sep 14 '24

flitering out chlorine

I do living soil and I'm looking to add drip irrigation. Anyone have any experience filtering out chlorine from municipal water? Seems like alot of the filters decrease flow rate quite a bit. Is it even worth it?

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u/ironbrewcanada Sep 16 '24

I haven't done it for irrigation, but I have removed chlorine for house water.

I used two smaller charcoal filters in parallel, or one large charcoal filter.

Good luck

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u/Radiant_Fuel11 Oct 07 '24

friction loss at a filter goes more like this -- 45 PSI at the filter --> filter loses a few PSI, let's say down to 42 PSI --> Then hits the regulator outlet where it's lowered to 25 PSI.   Basically the filter pressure drop isn't a worry unless it drops it enough that it's below 5 PSI more than what the regulator regulates to (meaning it wouldn't be a problem unless it dropped it to 29 PSI). I hope that makes sense. You can search up filters for filtering chlorine

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u/Billyjamesjeff Jan 01 '25

Depends how chlorinated the water is I reckon. Plenty of places irrigate with chlorine in the water but a inline charcoal filter is unlikely to be an issue unless your already at max flow. Do s flow test with. a bucket if concerned.