Pokegama Water.
—The water from Pokegama Spring at Detroit, Minn. is used widely through the Northwest as a table water. It is considered to be a very excellent drinking water because of the low amount of solids and the absence of any deleterious constituents. The complete chemical analysis as reported by the North Dakota Pure Food Laboratory is as follows:
Grains per gallon | |
Sodium chloride | 0.0200 |
Sodium sulphate | 0.0357 |
Sodium carbonate | 3.9288 |
Calcium carbonate | 11.3997 |
Lime carbonate | 0.0016 |
Magnesium carbonate | 3.8896 |
Sodium phosphate | trace |
Potassium sulphate | 0.4435 |
Silica | 0.4416 |
Organic matter | 0.1006 |
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Total | 20.2611 |
The total solids, 20.2611 grains per gallon, equivalent to 346.85 parts per million, is very low and composed of carbonates of sodium, calcium and magnesium, none of which are in any way harmful even in much larger quantities. The amount of organic matter is practically nothing.