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----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Seychell" <a_seychell@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Getting ready to switch from Ferric
Chloride to ???????


> Stefan Trethan wrote:
>>
>> You can buy small commercial stations now that use ion exchangers for
>> treatment of rinsing water.
>>
>
> Traditionally, people precipitate the copper in large tanks and after
> the solids settle, it should be below about 5ppm and ready to dump. ion
> exchanges are only required when precipitation fails , for example,
> rinse waters containing chelators, which keep metal ions soluble.
>
> Are you sure the discharge limit in Europe is 0.5mg ?, That level is
> lower than what is considered safe to drink. Heck , some natural water
> supplies are higher than 0.5mg.

I found this in an official doc on water quality:

20. Copper - copper is normally only found in polluted waters, although
trace amounts are sometimes found in soft moorland waters. Normally, copper
is found as a result of corrosion from copper and copper containing alloys
in plumbing systems.

As I said previously, there will be far more copper getting in the effluent
from copper pipes than that in the the litre or so per year that I pour down
the bog.

Leon