- Purifies to incredible 99.99999% standard
- Largest size will sustain up to 325 people
- Doesn't rely on moving parts or electricity
- Removes contaminants without losing beneficial minerals
- Each element can purify up to 3000 gallons of water
- Ideal solution for virus-contaminated water supplies
- Discount pricing available, see description for details
- Stainless steel water chamber
- Black Berkey element(s)
- Stainless lid with knob
- Plastic spigot
- Priming button
- Rubber ring for base
- Prime Right™ universal primer
- Prime Right™ flouride element adapter
- Anti-airlock clip
- (2) red food dye vials
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Berkey Water Purifier-Filter
Berkey Purifiers Alert
Berkey water purifiers have been one of our most popular products for many years, and their production has now been halted by the EPA. At Pleasant Hill Grain we believe Berkey purifiers are the most effective, highest quality purifiers on the market. But in some areas (mainly California), government authorities have sought for years to curtail Berkey sales. Those government authorities have offered their justifications, while many others have seen very different motives.
The latest move is that the U.S. EPA has now declared that Berkey water purifiers are a pesticide (seriously…), and therefore under their regulatory authority. Berkey is currently under a government order to cease production. As a result, we (and all distributors) are unable to order more Crown, Imperial, or Royal stainless systems, and these models are now out of stock. We can can still order Berkey Light, Big, and Travel—but these remaining Berkey systems are likely to run out soon as well. Berkey has made it very clear that the regulations the government is moving to put in place would mean the end of Berkey.
Berkey’s stock of separate purifier elements is exhausted, and distributors cannot order more.
Berkey is now suing the EPA in federal court in an effort to overturn their policy. It’s unknown when a ruling will be made, and if the EPA decision is allowed to stand, then we expect any remaining Berkey stocks to sell out in days if not hours. So if you want to ensure your personal supply of Berkey systems and replacement elements, our advice is that now is the time to do that. You can read Berkey’s recent statement on these developments here, and see an interview of Berkey owner Jim Shepherd by Emerald Robinson here.
Berkey Water Purifiers
The world's most powerful and economical water purification systems, Berkey® purifiers provide incredibly clean, pure water whether the source is a wild stream, stagnant pond, private well, or substandard municipal supply. Available in sizes large enough for the sustained needs of up to 325 people per system, Berkey purifiers rely on no moving parts and use no electricity.
Easy to use
Just fill the upper chamber with water. Gravity carries water through the Black Berkey purifying elements and incredibly pure water rains down into the Berkey's lower chamber where it's ready for you to use.
Contaminated Drinking Water
A recent national study found 316 different contaminants in U.S. drinking water. Berkey purifiers remove pathogenic bacteria, cysts and parasites while extracting chemicals including herbicides, pesticides, organic solvents, VOCs, detergents, cloudiness, silt, sediment, foul tastes and odors. They reduce heavy metals such as cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, aluminum as well as nitrites, without removing the beneficial minerals your body needs.
Proprietary Micro-Pore Technology
Berkey purifiers use proprietary micro-pore technology to achieve contaminant reduction of 99.99999%. This extreme level of purification, called “7-log” reduction, means that no more than one part per ten million of the original contaminant remains. This standard is 1000 times more stringent than what's required to label a system as a simple “water filter.” Systems achieving 7-log reduction provide ultra-pure water not only in normal conditions, but also in circumstances of extreme and highly dangerous contamination. And unlike many purifiers, Black Berkey elements are cleanable: A Scotchbrite™ pad is all you need to remove exterior buildup and extend element life. Each element can clean up to 3000 gallons of water.
Black Berkey Media
The media within Black Berkey® elements removes contaminants by a surface phenomenon called adsorption, the molecular attraction of substances to the surface of the media. The exclusive purification elements are also impregnated with proprietary media that promote ionic absorption of pollutants within the micro-porous elements. A key reason Berkey systems are so effective in removing contaminants from water is their long contact period. Most systems blast water through their filters at high pressure, which limits contact with their filter media to only a fraction of a second. Water molecules passing through the revolutionary micro-porous structure of the Black Berkey purification elements are drawn gently by gravity and remain in contact with the trapping media for several minutes. This multiplies the Black Berkey filter media's ability to capture contaminants.
Reducing Bacteria
Berkey purifiers using the Black Berkey purification elements are proven to reduce pathogenic bacteria (including E. Coli, Klebsiella, Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Giardia and Cryptosporidium) by 99.99999%. Berkey systems have been tested with the highest pathogenic contamination levels that can be produced in a laboratory. When contamination levels exceed a billion pathogens per liter of water (10,000 times the density of contamination used in the standard test protocol for bacteriological removal) they're classified as TNTC (too numerous to count.) Under normal testing protocol, one pathogenic organism is tested at a time, each with a fresh purifying element. For this test, however, the laboratory was directed to combine three separate pathogenic TNTC cultures. Tested under this extreme contamination level, absolutely no pathogens were able to make it through the purification elements. The laboratory then incubated the water, and nothing grew. When the purified water was viewed under an electron microscope not even inviable microbes were detectable—nothing was present but pure water. Furthermore, contaminants including trihalomethanes, radon 222, and volatile organic compounds including benzene, 2,4-D, Heptachlor, MTBE, styrene, tetrachloroethylene and toulene, among many others, were reduced to below detectable limits.
Reducing Viruses
Far smaller than bacteria, viruses typically range upward in size from about 30 nanometers (nm). Black Berkey purification elements have been proven in independent testing to reduce the MS2 and Fr Coliphage viruses, which are among the smallest viruses at about 25nm, to Log 5 (99.999%). No other gravity fed water filtration system even comes close to this performance. The striking superiority of Berkey water purifiers can be demonstrated with food coloring. When bacteria are viewed under a powerful microscope, food coloring is often used as a contrast enhancer to make the bacteria easier to see. Food coloring consists of particles so small that even under magnification strong enough to show fine details in a single bacterium, the food coloring still appears only as uniform coloration. Yet Berkey purifiers effectively remove food coloring from water. Berkey systems are the only purifiers in the world that can do this.
Soft water
The Black Berkey® purification elements are designed to remove heavy metals, but will not remove mineral salts, which are added by a water softener. The salt used to soften water will not be extracted by the Black Berkey® element. We recommend that you use softened water directly from the source rather than running it through the Black Berkey® elements.
Configurations
Berkey purifiers are available in several configurations. All Berkey Systems using Black Berkey purifying elements meet or exceed the EPA's stringent "7 Log" (99.99999%) contaminant reduction specification. Systems using Black Berkey elements within transparent Copolyester housings are known as Berkey Light Purifiers. Systems using Black Berkey elements within 304-grade stainless steel housings have the same purifying performance, and are known as Berkey Stainless Purifiers.
Bundle Discounts
Save on Berkey purifiers and accessories! The table below shows the special pricing that's available for Berkey products.
Berkey Bundle Discounts |
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Berkey Items
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Discount
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| Up to $750 | 5% |
| $750-$2500 | 7.5% |
| $2500+ | 10% |
| Order must include a stainless Berkey purifier from this page, or a Berkey Light purifier, plus a second Berkey item to be eligible for a bundle discound. Some replacement parts aren't eligible for bundle discount pricing. Discount will appear in cart. | |
Note: Berkey purifiers aren't available for shipment to Iowa or California. Of course, any Berkey system may actually be used anywhere. More details of these regulatory novelties can be seen here.
Berkey Water Purifier Stainless Systems |
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Elements
Capacity
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Storage
Capacity
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Flow Rate
w/2 elements
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Flow Rate
w/4 elements
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Daily
Maximum Flow
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Dimensions
in use
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Dimensions
Nested
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Crown Berkey |
2-8 |
6 gal |
6.5 gph |
13 gph |
650 gal |
11 x 30.5" |
11 x 20" |
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Imperial Berkey |
2-6 |
4.5 gal |
5.5 gph |
11 gph |
400 gal |
10 x 26.25" |
10 x 17" |
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Royal Berkey |
2-4 |
3.25 gal |
4 gph |
8 gph |
190 gal |
9.5 x 23.5" |
9.5 x 15.25" |
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Big Berkey |
2-4 |
2.25 gal |
4 gph |
8 gph |
190 gal |
8.5 x 20" |
8.5 x 13" |
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Travel Berkey |
2 |
1.5 gal |
2.75 gph |
n/a |
66 gal |
7.5 x 19" |
7.5 x 12" |
Flow rate is calculated based on a full upper chamber
Total Virus Control
Black Berkey® filtration systems are an integral part of the ideal solution for treating virus-contaminated water supplies. The accepted standard for using chlorine to kill waterborne viruses is 2 PPM (2 parts of chlorine per 1 million parts of water.) 2 PPM is achieved by adding 8 drops of straight chlorine (common chlorine bleach) to 1 gallon of water. For "good measure" the recommendation is often made to use up to 16 drops per gallon. But who wants to consume all of that chlorine? Berkey® Purifiers solve this dilemma. Black Berkey® elements remove the chlorine from the treated water after the chlorine has completely killed any viruses present. You're left with only what you want... ultra pure, ultra safe, great tasting water!
The glass on the left, of the picture to the left, contains dirty water straight form a pond. The glass on the right of the picture contains water from teh same pond, after it was purified in a Berkey system.
The Black Berkey filter formulation has been tested by state & EPA accredited laboratories. Click to see some of those test results, from Spectrum Labs and the University of Arizona.
Warranted by manufacturer
Additional options
Other Berkey systems include the transparent Berkey Light purifier, the small stainless Go Berkey and the Berkey Sport personal bottle.
Pleasant Hill Grain has been among the largest distributors of Berkey water purification systems for many years. In business for over three decades, we're here to help you with any questions now, and we'll be here later to meet your future needs. Please email or call us if you'd like to discuss Berkey systems. We'd appreciate your business, and we look forward to serving you!
THIS PRODUCT IS MADE IN THE USA!
Specs
Shipping
Accessories for this product:
PF-2 Fluoride/Arsenic Reduction Filters: These screw onto the underside of the Black Berkey® elements, inside the fresh water tank, and reduce fluoride and arsenic. The pair together will typically treat 1000 gallons of water. (Note: These do not fit onto the white ceramic elements, and they also cannot be used with the "Go Berkey" system.)
The Berkey PF-2™ Fluoride and Arsenic Reduction Elements adsorb the following unwanted elements found in drinking water:
PF-2 filters are made from safe, non-leaching Polypropolene #5 that is BPA-free.
Do PF-2 Filters for the Berkey® System leach auminum into the water that it's supposed to be treating? The answer is “No” and you can read the explanation .
Please note: Available for shipment to all states.
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The Berkey® accessory Stainless Steel Berkey Water View™ Spigot replaces the standard spigot on stainless Berkey models to provide a full-time display of just how much water is in the lower (purified) section of your system. Like the standard spigot, the handle provides your choice of either "stay-open" or "return to closed" action.
The table below shows which spigot fits each Berkey purifier model.
Berkey purifier not included.
The Berkey® accessory sight glass spigot replaces the standard spigot on stainless Berkey models to provide a full-time display of just how much water is in the lower (purified) section of your system. Like the standard spigot, the handle provides your choice of either "stay-open" or "return to closed" action.
The table below shows which sight spigot fit each Berkey purifier model.
Berkey purifier not included.
This stainless spigot can replace the plastic spigot that comes with each stainless Berkey unit.
To replace your spigot,
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Two ways to prime: Black Berkey® purifier elements need to be primed when they're put into service. Priming simply involves forcing some water through the element under a little pressure to make sure all of the purifying medium gets wet, which ensures that you'll benefit from each element's full flow rate. For this purpose, elements come standard with a Priming Button—a small foam rubber ring that allows you to prime the element at a faucet. The optional Black Berkey Primer is an alternative way of priming that may offer you some advantages.
The Black Berkey Primer™ is a hand-powered priming pump that makes it possible to prime Black Berkey elements easily without the need for faucets or hose connections. Priming saturates the elements with water prior to their use, allowing for clean water production anywhere. The primer also purges (or back-flushes) elements using air instead of water to clean the proprietary pores of the compressed carbon filter wall. Purging the elements accomplishes two things: (1) It clears the pores of debris that has accumulated with use, and (2), it reduces the time & effort needed to dry the filters prior to storing them.
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The stainless steel base (or stand) for Berkey water purifiers is designed to allow your drinking glass to slide under the water purifier spigot. Rubberized feet add stability and protect your countertop.
The Sport Berkey® Portable Water Filter is the ideal personal protection traveling companion, featuring the Ionic Absorption Micro Filtration System. The bottle's filter removes or dramatically reduces a vast array of health-threatening contaminants from questionable sources of water including lakes and streams, stagnant ponds and other water supplies.
The media within the filter element removes contaminants by a surface phenomenon known as adsorption, the molecular attraction of substances to the surface of the media. As the bottle is pressed, the source water is forced through the filter. The quality and volume of media used, determine the rate of adsorption. The flow rate or time of exposure through the filter has been calculated to yield the greatest volume removal of toxic chemicals caused by pollution from industry and agriculture.
This exclusive filter element is impregnated with proprietary absorbing media that promotes ionic absorption of pollutants within the micro-porous element, such as aluminum, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, and other dangerous heavy metals. The "tortuous path" structure of these pores gives it its unique characteristics. The Sport Berkey achieves 99.9% contaminant reduction.
The Sport Berkey's sturdy top loop can be used for hanging. Rotating the loop to the side causes the sipping tube to pop up automatically, so your hands never need to touch the fresh water tube.
If using a source of water that might contain extreme bacteriological or viral contamination, it's recommended that two drops of plain chlorine or iodine be added to each refill before filtering. This will kill minute pathogens such as viruses. The disinfectant will then be filtered from the water entirely, removing its odor, color and taste and leaving only purified water.
Dimensions: 2.75"D x 11"H (including top ring). Tube diameter is 1/4 inch. Holds 22 oz. water.
Filter element life: Ranges from 640 refills from a municipal water source, to 160 refills from a highly turbid water source. Another way to tell when it’s time to change elements is suction effort: when it becomes too difficult to draw water through the tube, it’s time for a new element.
The Berkey Sport bottle comes with either a black or orange filter. Both filters have the same life expectancy, filter capacity, and reduction capabilities, the only difference is the color.
Warranted by manufacturer: Read warranty
Please note: The Sport Berkey purifier system IS available for shipment to California. The Sport Berkey system is not yet available for shipment to Iowa, though it may be used in Iowa.
Other Berkey systems include five full-size models of Berkey Stainless Systems, the transparent Berkey Light and the small stainless Go Berkey. Also available: British Berkefeld systems with white ceramic elements.
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I love this thing, but I ended up with a puddle because there is no indication that the lower vessel is full and that no further water should be added.
For the past ten years, I have been traveling throughout South America, living the expat lifestyle. It's been wonderful! What is the one thing I would NEVER FORGET to pack in my luggage? My Berkey Water Filter! You never know when your water source may be unreliable and that includes those of you who use the same tap water every day! But wherever my travels took me, I knew I could drink any water that had been purified by my Berkey. And when I left Ecuador in March to return to the US? Yep, I was able to sell my Berkey to another gringo down there for exactly the same price for which I'd paid for it originally. That's how well-known and respected the Berkey brand is, throughout the world! So go ahead and buy with confidence in the product and its value maintaining over time. The folks at Pleasant Hill are my only source for obtaining anything Berkey. They are the best, too!
We love our Big Berkey. It does a great job, filters quickly, and is well made. Just a few things I wish were different. I wish we had bought a bigger size. It's just two of us, and we end up filling it up at least 2x per day. I also wish that the upper compartment had a small lip around the base that extended below the filter threads so that you could set it off to the side while it was upright. The only other issues are with emptying it. The upper compartment doesn't drain all the way down. I imagine it's to keep sediment from clogging the filters and to allow that to settle out for cleaning, and the bottom compartment had to be tilted to drain the water out of it. A simple 90 degree elbow for a side pickup would help with that. The lack of complete drainage and pickup, combined with the inability to set the upper compartment to the side while standing upright, seems trivial at first, but when you are filling it multiple times per day, it becomes an inconvenience especially if you don't drain the bottom before you fill the top.
I've been looking to buy a Berkey Water Filter for years, and it has not let me down. I enjoy not smelling my water! I have to mention Pleasant Hill Grain's customer service, they were awesome when I called on a Saturday morning with a couple issues I had, they were great! I wouldn't ever hesitate ordering from Pleasant Hill again, and will... need more filters for my Berkey : )
I became concerned about the chlorine in our city water, so began my mission to find a way to filter our water without a whole house system which could be costly. We're happy we found the Berkey water purifier and recommend it to anyone wanting to improve their drinking water.
I purchased three of the Big Berkies for my family. My son and daughter are absolutely in love with the quality of the water and the convenience of having that water right at their finger tips. My husband and I drink nothing else but Berky water, it's just so convenient for us. Thank you so much for making these available online with super fast shipping.
I received this as a gift for my birthday last year and I am thankful that I did. I didn't purchase it because we had bad water or anything. However, I do not own a TV and wasn't sure when my area would need to boil water....it seemed to happen frequently. After getting the Berkey I didn't have to wonder about that any longer. Also, we just moved to Germany and my Berkey is something I wanted to take with me to arrive early. Here in Germany, I haven't met one person who drinks their tap water, everyone buys water....except my family: -)....we gladly drink our wonderful tasting Berkey-filtered water. As far as how it works. I am very satisfied. I purchased the stand so that we can put our cups on the counter to fill up under the spigot. I'm glad I did. We bought the Royal Berkey and we have 9 kids. We could have purchased a bigger one, but I didn't want it to be too big, seeing as it would be setting on my counter. We do have to fill it a few times a day, but that doesn't bother me. I love my Berkey and recommend getting the stand to go with it.
The Crown BERKEY water filter I ordered from Pleasant Hill Grain is wonderful. the water is very pure and great tasting and it's very easy to use. Just turn the spigot. The Pleasant Hill Grain people I spoke to on the phone were very kind and professional. I would recommend this to everyone.
We've been very pleased with our Berkey purifier. It's great to know that we're drinking pure, uncontaminated water every day. We plan to take it on our 3 week long cross-country trip!
We've had a Berkey in our home for over 10 years! We love it! I've recently ordered one for my office. The water tastes great!
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