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Fargo operates redundant supply infrastructure, drawing municipal water from both the Red River and the Sheyenne River. Both sources carry dissolved minerals through the regional watershed before treatment.
The city's treatment process disinfects with ozone first, then adds chloramine as a residual disinfectant before water enters the distribution network. Chloramine persists in pipes longer than chlorine, which is why it remains present at the tap and can affect taste and odor throughout the home.
Raw source water carries significant hardness that the treatment plant reduces before water enters distribution. Some hardness is deliberately left in the finished supply to prevent the water from becoming corrosive to pipes. The result at the tap is water that is still hard enough to cause scale on fixtures and in water heaters over time.
In 2018, the city added a membrane filtration step to the treatment train specifically to address sulfate and bromide that the existing lime softening process could not remove on its own.
A water softener addresses the hardness that carries through to the distribution tap. Carbon filtration handles the taste and odor contribution from chloramine at every fixture in the house. Under-sink reverse osmosis at the kitchen tap provides an additional reduction stage for drinking and cooking water, removing dissolved solids that carbon filtration alone does not catch.
The Fargo treatment plant reduces hardness from raw source levels before water enters distribution, but the finished supply at the tap still contains hardness minerals. These accumulate on fixtures, inside water heaters, and throughout your plumbing over time. A water assessment for your address will give you specific numbers.
Chloramine is a disinfectant formed by combining chlorine with ammonia. Fargo uses it because it lasts longer in distribution pipes than free chlorine. It also stays active at your tap, where it contributes to a distinct taste or odor. Carbon filtration at your main line reduces the chloramine impact at every fixture in the house.
The city added membrane filtration to its treatment process in 2018. The upgrade addressed sulfate and bromide in the source water that the earlier lime softening stage was not designed to handle. It is a plant-level treatment step, not something that replaces point-of-use filtration at the tap.
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