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

Columbus, OH Water Quality: Yesterday

As the innumerable battles for the Ohio territory ended in the 19th century, the future capital, then known as the Borough of Columbus, was established in 1816 along the shores of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers. The confluence of these two water sources, just north of Columbus’s downtown, continue to play a vital role in the region’s water access and management.

The city first dammed the Scioto River in 1908 with the construction of Griggs Reservoir and later with the O’Shaughnessy Dam in 1925, now the Columbus Water Works. Once hailed the “best inland city reservoir and dam in the United States,” storing enough water to serve double the population at the time, the O’Shaughnessy would be later eclipsed by the famous Hoover Dam, completed on the Big Walnut Creek in 1955 in response to the area’s population boom post-World War II. These three reservoirs still provide more than 140 million gallons of water daily to Columbus residents.

Columbus, OH Water Quality: Today

The city of Columbus has always been at the forefront of water treatment and management. In the 20^th century, the Hoover brothers, for whom the city’s dam was named, studied water treatments methods to prevent typhoid, earning national acclaim.

Today, Columbus residents can still trace their tap water back to the Scioto River and Big Walnut Creek, in addition to groundwater pumped from the Scioto River Valley, all of which are susceptible to contamination from industrial activities, storm water runoff from developing areas and agricultural fields and a heavily traveled transportation network running alongside and over the water sources. Residents may often encounter tap water that is rusty, cloudy, or musty, contains white particles, tastes or smells of chlorine or sulfur, or leaves behind a pink residue.

Quench Water Coolers – A Better Drinking Water System for Columbus, OH

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 cost of bottled water delivery services.