Hot Tub & Pool Service in Taylorsville, Utah
Hot tub and pool service in Taylorsville, Utah. The water blends deep wells with reservoir water, and one well can turn water brown. Learn what to do about it.
There is a well in Taylorsville that turns water brown.
It is called the Pioneer Well, and it is one of eleven wells the Taylorsville-Bennion Improvement District draws from. It is naturally high in magnesium. Run on its own, it has historically produced brown water complaints across the district. The district’s answer is to run it alongside lower-mineral wells so the water blends in the pipes before it reaches anyone’s tap. On most days that works. But it means Taylorsville fill water genuinely varies depending on which wells are running the day you fill, and it is why a Taylorsville hot tub owner should know more about their water than the average one.
Where Taylorsville water comes from
Two places. Part of the district’s supply comes from its own eleven deep wells drilled into the aquifer under the valley floor. The rest is treated mountain surface water from Deer Creek and Jordanelle reservoirs, bought wholesale from Jordan Valley Water and mixed in.
Surface water from the reservoirs is comparatively low in mineral. Deep well water is not. So the water reaching a given Taylorsville tap on a given day is a blend whose mineral content depends on the mix, and the mix changes with demand, season, and which wells are online.
What the district does and does not publish
This is the honest part, and it is unusual for a hot tub company to say it.
The Taylorsville-Bennion district does not publish hardness, calcium, alkalinity, or pH in its annual water quality report. Not as a table, not as a narrative number. Anyone who tells you Taylorsville water is “X grains per gallon” is guessing or copying from a water softener sales page. We are not going to put a number on this page that the utility itself has not published.
What the district does publish is total dissolved solids. The average is 392.8 milligrams per liter, and the range across the system is 272 to 516. Those numbers are useful, so here is what they mean.
Dissolved solids are everything left behind when water evaporates: minerals, salts, all of it. The low end, 272, is what you get when the reservoir water is dominating the blend. The high end, 516, is closer to undiluted deep well water, and it is above the 500 milligram per liter guideline the federal government uses as the threshold where drinking water starts to taste mineral. Taylorsville water can cross that line.
Why dissolved solids matter for a hot tub
A hot tub adds dissolved solids constantly. Every dose of sanitizer, every pH adjustment, every gallon that evaporates and leaves its minerals behind. The total climbs from the day you fill until the day you drain, and there is a ceiling above which the water stops responding to chemistry: you add reducer and the pH barely moves, sanitizer disappears faster than it should, the water looks dull no matter what.
A fill that starts at 272 has a lot of room under that ceiling. A fill that starts at 516 has much less. Two Taylorsville tubs filled a month apart from the same tap can have meaningfully different lifespans on the same water, depending on which wells were running.
Practically: plan on a drain, clean, and refill closer to every three months than every four. And if the water starts fighting you earlier than that, it is the water, not you.
If your water turns brown
- Do not keep adding sanitizer. Chlorine will not clear dissolved mineral, and shocking a brown tub repeatedly just adds more dissolved solids to water that already has too many.
- Check whether it happened right after a fill or top-up. If so, the source is the likely cause.
- Call us. Depending on what we find, the fix is usually a drain and refill, sometimes with the shell cleaned while it is empty if the mineral has started to stain it. A deep clean handles staining that a drain alone does not.
- Going forward, top up in small amounts rather than large ones, and let us test after any big refill.
Where we go in Taylorsville
The routes run through Bennion and the streets off 4700 South, the established neighborhoods east of Redwood Road, the homes backing onto the Jordan River Parkway, and the newer subdivisions out toward the Kearns line. Taylorsville has a lot of 1970s and 80s houses with tubs on concrete patios and a growing number of above-ground pools, which we handle at the same $110 pool rate.
We are based in Millcreek and run Taylorsville on Thursday and Friday routes. Crossing the valley on 4700 South or I-215 is a normal part of the day, not a special trip.
What we do here
Routine hot tub maintenance at $75 a visit, pool maintenance at $110, drain and refill at $275 flat, and hourly cleaning and repair quoted after we look. The two routine visits include chemicals; the rest bill chemicals, materials, and parts at cost.
Every routine visit tests calcium hardness along with the other four water factors. In Taylorsville, where the utility does not publish it, that test is the only number you will get. Book a visit or call.