Patent ID: 8157972

Claim:
A residential water treatment system for treating a well water source, comprising: a water softener removing hardness from a raw water supply to form a softened water stream; a bypass line for recirculating a bypass stream including at least a portion of the softened water stream to a location between the well pump and the water softener; an electrolytic generator having a flow-through electrolytic element including both a cathode and an electrode mounted directly within the bypass stream, wherein a hardness level of the bypass stream is reduced in comparison to the raw water supply to limit scale formation of the flow-through electrolytic element; and a brine supply line from a brine tank of the water softener, the brine supply line fluidly connected to the bypass line for directing a saturated sodium chloride stream through the flow-through electrolytic element to form an oxygenated and chlorinated water stream.