Light mud/clay water filter

L.A.W,you could just fill a bucket with water & let it settle for a couple of hours & then tip it through some sort of cotton garment into another bucket & then you should have the water you require.
Cheer's Bob.

In the Army we were issued a bag called a Milbank filter which was heavy cotton used to remove the larger floaties out of ground water before adding puritabs.

We're mucking around with alum and turbid creek water. 3g/100L seems close. Any one with advice?

These guys have made a filter that will do what you want. Developed for use in disaster relief. Not sure if it's available to the public.

Go to the link and look for the SkyHydrant.

Skyjuice

I bought a filter cartridge housing on e-bay (new) for $25 and bought locally a 5 micron filter works great and gravity feeds thru filter easily. A note of caution though there are two grades of filter cartridge NOMINAL which is a bit iffy on the actual rating or ABSOLUTE which means if marked 5 micron it will filter to 99.9% 5 micron. My son also uses 5 micron (absolute) to filter his home brew to take out most of the sediment and it still leaves enough yeast in solution for second fermentation and leaves the brew crystal clear and no sediment in the bottle. Most filter cartridges can be back washed to extend their life. As an example he bought a 1 micron NOMINAL cartridge and it is not as good as his 5 micron ABSOLUTE

Greenant

I remember when I worked on a station NW of Gundi in Qld during the drought we were drinking/showering etc with straight dam water. We would pump the water straight into the house rain water tank then spread (throw) either gypsum or calcium (can't remember exactly but it was white powder) and it would settle out all the sediment - leaving water most clear. Best part was having to climb inside the tank when it had emptied (in iddle of summer) and clean out the foot of silt on the bottom of the tank.

Tasted like it smelt - bloody ordinary.......now I know why I like XXXX so much.

Filters go down to about .1 micron but are expensive for absolute
I paid $18 for my 5 micron absolute Have seen them at Bunnings
If you go carbon 5 micron it will take out all the nasties as well and quite safe to drink
Do a google and you will be surprised whats there. When buying a cartridge I was given a lot of misinformation from sales people. Make sure if you buy a cartridge it is ABSOLUTE rated. A lot of people think because they were sold a cartridge for their home use and rated at 5 or 10 or 20 etc thats what they are getting, nominal rating doesn't mean a thing
PS Tell us the outcome once you have bought and tried

Greenant