Why does the district prohibit water softeners that discharge salt down the drain?
A. There are four main reasons why the district has an ordinance prohibiting the use of water softeners that discharge salt down the drain. 1. Salt is a corrosive substance that prematurely damages pipes. 2. The district’s wastewater collection and treatment facilities are not equipped to remove salt from sewer water and the district itself is regulated from allowing too much salt to pass through the treatment facilities. 3. A high concentration of salt in the recycled water produced at the treatment plants can make it unusable for irrigating golf courses, causing customers of treated water to instead use groundwater and placing an unnecessary demand on our precious aquifer. 4. Excess salt in treated water eventually makes its way back to the aquifer. Our groundwater is very clean and requires little treatment before coming to your tap, but large concentrations of salt will eventually have an adverse impact on the water quality.
