Two supplies, two very different systems
Whole-Home Water Filtration in Stroudsburg
Whole-home filtration means something different on each side of the Stroudsburg borough line. Inside, Brodhead Creek Regional Authority water is chlorinated municipal supply — the job is carbon for taste and a sediment stage for main work. Outside, Stroud and Hamilton township wells come up soft and acidic from Pocono shale — the job is an acid neutralizer for copper-eating pH, iron filtration when it stains, and sediment for storm cloudiness. The free test tells us which house you live in.
A point-of-entry system treats every tap — kitchen, showers, laundry — from the spot where water enters the house. On borough water that is a carbon tank with a sediment prefilter: no salt, no drain, chlorine gone. On a township well it is built in stages from the reading: sediment, iron when it stains, calcite neutralizer when pH is below about 6.5. The Victorian core’s pre-1986 plumbing raises a separate lead question that no whole-house filter answers; one kitchen-tap test does.
Borough water: carbon and sediment
BCRA treats and chlorinates the supply. By the time it reaches a Main Street kitchen the chlorine’s job is done and it just tastes like a pool. Catalytic carbon at the point of entry removes it from every tap. A sediment stage ahead of the carbon catches what main work stirs loose. That is the whole borough job — and because hardness varies here, we read it rather than assume a softener belongs in the stack.
Township wells: neutralize first
Water below 6.5 pH slowly dissolves copper plumbing, leaving blue-green stains under drips and eventually pinhole leaks. An acid neutralizer — a calcite tank — raises pH at the point of entry and protects every pipe downstream. Iron staining gets its own filter. Seasonal sediment after storms gets a sediment stage first. Pennsylvania regulates none of these wells; Penn State Extension recommends a yearly test including coliform.
Sound familiar?
Problems this system solves
Chlorine taste in the borough
Catalytic carbon at the point of entry, every tap.
Orange staining on well water
Iron. Its own filter stage when it stains.
Lead in pre-1986 plumbing
Not a whole-house job. One test, RO at the kitchen sink if it shows.
The payoff
Why NEPA homeowners choose this system
Every tap, one system
Chlorine, acidity, or iron handled where water enters the house.
Protects the plumbing
Neutralized water stops copper corrosion; sediment protects fixtures.
Built for your supply
Borough carbon or township well package — decided by the reading.
Stroudsburg to Snydersville
Stroud, Hamilton, Analomink, East Stroudsburg — one crew.
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