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

Cincinnati Water Quality: Yesterday

Early settlers of Cincinnati used hollowed-out logs to carry untreated water from the Ohio River to the main city center. As the Cincinnati grew, residents could pay 25 cents a week to have water delivered by horse and oxen from the natural spring to their houses. By 1805, Cincinnati had 1,700 residents taking advantages of this service. In 1824, a steam engine from the riverboat Vesta replaced the horse and oxen and allowed the system to pump about 1.2 million gallons of water a day. In 1828, Cincinnati started to install cast iron pipes as the hollowed-out logs could not sustain the increased water flow and pressure. By the 1890s, Cincinnati was the nation’s fifth-largest city and was one of the few to take water treatment seriously.

In 1928, Cincinnati pioneered the use of activated carbon filtration to improve taste and eliminate odor from chlorine treatment.The distribution system was expanded in 1941 to better serve the expanding city limits. To meet the growing demand of the 1970s, Cincinnati constructed The Charles M. Bolton Plant to produce water from the Great Miami Aquifer. Cincinnati was the first utility in the nation to adopt the use of granular activated carbon in 1992.

Cincinnati Water Quality: Today

Though Cincinnati was an early adopter of activated carbon filtration, it stills uses many of its original cast iron pipes from the late 1800s! Older cast iron pipes are prone to corrosion and biofilm contamination from chemical reactions. These reactions create clusters of pipe deterioration and bacteria along the inside of the pipe, resulting in a “rotten egg” taste and smell. To combat the corrosion and biofilm contamination that has become synonymous with older cast iron pipes, many municipal water departments add high levels of chlorine, which has its own taste and smell issues.

Quench Water Coolers – A Better Drinking Water Solution for Cincinnati

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.