Fridge water pulled in salt water from water softener (repair, replace, remove)

[marykate1]

Yesterday,

I think my fridge pulled in salt water from water softener. I am not sure how it happened but when I tasted the water it was very very salty. I use the water dispenser in fridge to fill up few gallons of water and throw it away. Now the water taste is not as before. I don't have any tool to measure salt so I took the water from the fridge dispenser and boiled it. It showed little white residue left behind which I believe is salt. So it means it still have salt.

How can I remove salt from my fridge dispenser?

What tools I can use to measure the levels of salt coming from water in fridge dispenser?

How can I find out the safe drinking water salt level?

[victimofGM]

First call someone to repair your water softener.

[K'ledgeBldr]

If the whole house is on a water softener- your water dispenser has always had “salt” in it.

The mere fact that you could actually taste the salt says that one, your water softener system may have had a hiccup and is not operating properly; and two, perhaps it’s time to change the water filter on the fridge.

[marykate1]

I think the fridge might pulled in the water at the wrong time also during the same time I had to put the water softener on bypass mode which may have messed it up.

Water filters on fridge were changed in July so they should be okay. How can I remove the salt from the water dispensor in the fridge.

[Therblig]

Throw away all the ice. Run two or three gallons of water from the dispenser tap. Replace the filter again.

And have someone check your water softener, as there should never be more than a trace of salt in water that passes through it. The brine cycle should be isolated from the pass-through cycle.