Water treatment & radon mitigation in Reading, Pennsylvania
Reading and the Berks County suburbs sit at the edge of the Reading Prong — which matters for both water and radon.
Otter Home is a family-owned water and air company serving Reading and the rest of Berks 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 Reading
Berks water varies sharply by neighborhood. Homes in the limestone valley around Sinking Spring and Wyomissing see hard water in the 12–20 gpg range, while wells drilled into the granitic and gneissic rock of the Prong to the north often come back soft but acidic, with pH in the 5.5–6.5 range that eats copper pipe and leaves blue-green staining.
City water vs. private wells
Reading city and much of the built-up area is on Reading Area Water Authority supply; outlying Berks townships are heavily well-served.
Common well water problems
Low pH and copper leaching, manganese (black staining), iron, and sulfur odor in deeper wells.
Municipal chlorination
City water is chlorinated surface water. Most Reading homeowners we see want chlorine taste and odor gone plus scale control.
Radon in this area
Berks County sits directly on the Reading Prong, one of the highest natural radon zones in the country. Testing here isn't optional in our opinion — plenty of homes read double digits.
Also serving nearby
Wyomissing · Sinking Spring · Shillington · Birdsboro · Fleetwood
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Free water test in Reading.
No obligation, no pressure. We test, we explain what the numbers mean, and you decide.