Water treatment & radon mitigation in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Harrisburg, Hershey and the West Shore suburbs are mostly on treated river water with steady hardness.
Otter Home is a family-owned water and air company serving Harrisburg and the rest of Dauphin County. We test first, then recommend only the equipment your test results actually call for — softeners, iron and sulfur removal, acid neutralizers, reverse osmosis drinking water, whole-home air purification and radon systems.
Water chemistry in Harrisburg
Capital Region Water draws from the DeHart Reservoir and the Susquehanna. Treated supply is moderately hard — typically 7–12 gpg — which is enough to scale a water heater over a few years but milder than Lancaster's limestone wells. Chlorine taste is the most common complaint we hear here.
City water vs. private wells
City and inner suburbs are on public water; townships out toward Linglestown, Grantville and northern Dauphin have plenty of wells.
Common well water problems
Iron and manganese, sulfur odor in deeper wells, and hardness in the limestone pockets near Hummelstown and Hershey.
Municipal chlorination
Public water is chlorinated. A whole-home carbon system plus a properly sized softener is the usual fix for city-water homes.
Radon in this area
Dauphin and Cumberland counties both have significant numbers of homes above 4.0 pCi/L, particularly along the limestone and shale belts.
Other towns we serve
Free water test in Harrisburg.
No obligation, no pressure. We test, we explain what the numbers mean, and you decide.