No water softeners needed in Shreveport

Posted: Nov 20, 2009 3:59 PM

Citizens of Shreveport may have noticed their water is a little softer these days. Apparently weeks of rain can do that!

Darren Fortenberry, purifications superintendent for the City of Shreveport, makes the educated guess that while the flood gates were open at Cross Lake, we may have let as much as 60 billion gallons of water out of Cross Lake. Cross Lake holds about 26 billion gallons of water, so that means the lake could have turned over twice in the time the gates were open.

Fortenberry says he has never seen the hardness level for the city water supply as low as it is right now; the rain has definitely diluted the mineral content. The city's hardness level is on average 45-50 mg/liter, but at one point in the last two weeks, it was only 21 mg/liter.

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    mrclean at Nov 20th 2009 4:32 PM

    KTBS BREAKING NEWS   i cant get that booger up in my nose. like this story who really cares?

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