Including filter system and high-performance Radium filter.
Radium is a naturally occurring radioactive metal that can appear in groundwater and sometimes in household drinking water. Because you can’t see, smell, or taste it, testing is the only reliable way to know if it’s in your tap. You may also find it listed on lab reports as radium-226 or radium-228. Many University Park homeowners who want protection across the house choose a treatment that covers every faucet rather than just a single point of use.
Radium often enters water as it moves through certain rock and soil, so its presence depends on local geology more than on everyday plumbing habits. It can travel with other dissolved minerals and hardness — a common issue in Miami-Dade County’s hard water — even when water appears clear. If you’re thinking about long-term protection in University Park, treating water where it enters the house helps reduce radium throughout plumbing for cooking, drinking, and bathing.
For whole-house radium control, an ion exchange water softener is frequently the most effective single-filter option. These systems use resin beads that exchange sodium or potassium for certain dissolved minerals, and that same process can capture radium when it’s present in dissolved form. Installed on the main line, an ion exchange softener protects every faucet in your University Park home and maintains consistent water quality throughout the house.
Because ion exchange resin has limited capacity, correct sizing and routine regeneration are essential for dependable radium reduction over time. Settings should be matched to your household demand and local water chemistry — including the hard water common in the Miami-Dade area — and many homes benefit from a sediment prefilter to protect the resin and preserve flow. Mr. Pure Water can help University Park homeowners choose and install a whole-house ion exchange system that targets radium-226 and radium-228 while fitting your plumbing and daily needs.