The Importance of Water Filtration in Staten Island and North Jersey Homes

Homes across Staten Island and Northern New Jersey take a city supply. That makes this a different question from the one people ask in well country, where the argument is about what came out of the ground. Here the supply arrives disinfected and the interesting part is what happens after that.

The building is the variable. Water that leaves a main in good condition still has to travel through a service line, then through whatever pipework is inside the house, before it reaches a glass. On a block where some houses went up in the 1920s and others in the 1970s, that journey is not the same journey, and neither is the water at the end of it.

Chlorine is the everyday complaint. A disinfectant residual is there for a good reason, and it also carries a taste and a smell that people notice most in drinking water, in coffee and in a long hot shower. Carbon filtration is the ordinary answer, at the sink or at the main line depending on how much of the house you want covered.

Older plumbing is where whole-home treatment earns its keep. Point-of-entry treatment protects everything downstream of it: the pipes, the fixtures, the water heater and the appliances, which in an older home are the expensive things to replace.

Pro Water was started by someone who spent years repairing water mains, and the reason the company exists is what that work showed him about ageing infrastructure. The straight answer is still that nobody can tell you what your house needs without testing your water, and that test does not cost you anything.