Quench: The Cleaner, Greener, More Affordable Water Cooler for Dallas-Fort Worth

Dallas-Fort Worth Water Quality: Yesterday

Beginning in 1850, the first public water supply for Dallas was a freshwater spring, Browder’s Springs. The Trinity River carried away domestic waste. As Dallas grew, Browder Springs could not keep up with demand. Dallas city leaders needed clean water sources that could provide water for drinking, bathing, and firefighting for the growing city. The West Fork of the Trinity River, flowing from Fort Worth, was filthy with packinghouse waste and domestic waste. However, water from Trinity River’s Elm Fork was a promising source. City planners built a dam and pumping station in the mid-1890s, first used wooden flumes to distribute. City planners replaced the wooden flumes in 1913 with cast iron pipes.

While cleaner than the water from the West Fork of the Trinity River, the water supply from the Elm Fork was inconsistent, a result of drought and flooding. City planners constructed a series of manmade lakes to store the overflow from stormwater to help stem possible droughts.

Dallas Fort Worth Water Quality: Today

Today, Dallas provides water to 1.2. million people within the city limits and uses six manmade reservoirs, including Lake Ray Hubbard, Lewisville Lake, Grapevine Lake, Ray Roberts Lake, Lake Tawakoni, and Lake Fork Reservoir, to store water from Trinity River and larger reservoirs outside Dallas. The distribution system for Dallas water is one of the largest in the United States, consisting of 4,600 miles of pipes. Over half of these are cast iron pipes, which 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, including Dallas, add high levels of chlorine, which has its own taste and smell issues.

Quench Water Coolers – A Better Drinking Water System for Dallas – Fort Worth

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.