How do chlorine and chloramine affect the pond?
Top Chlorine and sometimes chloramine are added to many water supplies. This does not apply to natural fed water from springs or wells, just water treated and supplied by water companies. Water companies provide water for humans to consume, and not for fish and plants to reside. These chemicals are added as part of the water purification process. An amount of the water supplied to our homes is recycled, filtered (in a similair way to our ponds’ filtering), and treated with chemicals to make it safe to drink. Depending on where you live, different things maybe done to your water before it comes out of the tap or faucet. Water can come from natural springs, reservoirs, underground aquafers, or a mixture. This can go through a treatment plant (which is like a giant pond filter), through carbon to remove impurities, and many other treatments. To ensure there is no bad bacteria in the water we drink, chemicals called chlorine and chloramine are normally added. This is normally added at the
