Quench: The Cleaner, Greener, More Affordable Water Cooler for Charlotte

Charlotte Water Quality: Yesterday

Charlotte is blessed with many natural streams, and early settlers drew their water from these streams and local private wells. By 1881, the city had outgrown the numerous private wells and the Charlotte Water Company was established to develop a reliable water supply system. In 1900, a 5 million gallon-a-day filtration plant and pumping station was built on Irwin Creek to supply water to the growing city. Less than three years later, another pumping station, the Catawba River Pump Station, was built to keep up with demand. By 1911, the Catawba River Pump Station was failing to meet demand, and city officials resorted to shipping water by train into the city while a new water intake facility on the Catawba River was constructed.

City officials built a 60 million gallon reservoir in 1917 to help bolster the water supply to keep up with the growing population. A manmade reservoir, Mountain Island Lake, was constructed to provide drinking water for Charlotte and surrounding Mecklenburg County. Charlotte has grown by 94% over the last 96 years and city planners have continued to build a system of reservoirs and treatment plants to meet demand.

Photograph appears courtesy of the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room – Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Charlotte Water Quality: Today

Today Charlotte Water serves over 950,000 customers in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County and is the largest water service utility in the Carolinas. However, Charlotte routinely experiences droughts and low water levels. Limited water supplies can affect water taste and smell because of a concentration of total dissolved solids, chlorine, and nitrates in the drinking water as water levels decline.

Quench Water Coolers – A Better Drinking Water System for Charlotte

No need to worry about what your office’s drinking water might have picked up on its journey to your glass. Quench offers a full complement of filtration and purification technologies to remove sediment, reduce chemical contaminants, including lead, and get rid of off-tastes and odors . That’s how we can guarantee that Quench office water coolers produce crisp, clean, great-tasting water – and at a fraction of the price of bottled water delivery services.