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Recycled Water Fill Station Stats – October 2015

November 11, 2015 / nick / 0 Comments

For the start of the 2016 water year, we find ourselves reporting on a handful of Residential Recycled Water Fill Stations. Of the fill stations that have reported their monthly statistics to this blog, they have given away a combined total of 68,105,724 gallons of recycled water to more than 7,500 users.

There is still high demand for this precious resource that is excellent for irrigating botanical life at your homestead. As one fill station attendant said “between rain, fewer daylight hours, cooler temperatures, and kids back in school – activity at this fill station has slowed down.”

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Recycled Water Fill Station Stats – 2015 Water Year

October 6, 2015 / nick / 0 Comments

The 2015 Water Year just ended and more than 5,700 registered users hauled just shy of 45 million gallons of recycled water for irrigation at home. For a state locked in a historic 4 year drought this is very telling information.

As we look ahead, we should take every haulers motivation to keep their yards alive and put forward plans to bring recycled water to the masses in an economically efficient way. If anything, we need a New “Water” Year Resolution. Continue reading

Recycled Water Fill Station Stats for August 2015 – City of Brentwood, City of Healdsburg, Ironhouse SD & more

September 4, 2015 / nick / 0 Comments

Yard sign in Healdsburg

With 4 of 16 recycled water fill stations reporting their stats to this blog, I’d call that pretty good considering this is a completely new field. City of Brentwood, City of Healdsburg, Central Contra Costa Sanitary District and Ironhouse Sanitary District all make their fill station stats public.

This go around, while also asking for stats, I asked if anything has been learned. One fill station mentioned their purchase of the PortALogic system to reduce the man hours required in staffing the fill station. Something other fill stations may want to invest in when it comes to analyzing the increased costs of staffing a free recycled water fill station.

Combined volume giveaway: 8.7 million+ gallons

City of Brentwood – Recycled Water Fill Station Stats

August 14, 2015 / nick / 0 Comments

City of Brentwood sent me some fill station statistics. After a brief overview, they gave away nearly 4,300,000 gallons of recycled water in 8 weeks. Faster than CCCSD, DSRSD and Ironhouse SD.

They’ve been so successful, they even created this awesome youtube video:

Ironhouse SD Recycled Water Fill Station Stats – July 2015

August 6, 2015 / nick / 0 Comments

Ironhouse SD Fill Station Stats – July 2015

July was a busy month for the Ironhouse Sanitary District. Their free recycled water fill station saw a lot of activity and it has made their employees and board members ecstatic! When the fill station first opened, they had 21,000 gallons water storage, but when demand picked up they quickly grew to 58,000 gallons of storage.

Now, as they are accommodating nearly 300 visitors a day, the Board of Directors approved a pipeline from their water recycling plant to the fill station, which enables more than 58,000 gallons give away, a day. Continue reading

CCCSD Fill Station Updates

July 30, 2015 / nick / 0 Comments

The Central Contra Costa Sanitary District in Martinez has been operating a Free Recycled Water Fill Station since October, 2014. In 10 months, they have learned quite a bit about procedure, human nature and how to more efficiently give free recycled water away to the thousands of residents willing to haul recycled water home for use in their yards. Just recently they have made some changes that I’ve noticed and thought I would share them with you.

Weekend hours changed – Saturday & Sunday 8AM to 4PM,
9 new employees hired to run fill station,
Paper log sheets have been replaced with a laptop, a drivers license scanner and custom software,
Traffic control measure setup to ease flow of traffic in a once rarely used section of street,
More hose bibs installed to accommodate more flow (launched with 3, up to 7 total),
- Takes about 5 minutes to fill a 275 gallon tote
- A new recycled water pipeline was run to increase pressure on the line
Yard signs are given out for free to users who ask,
Fill station data sets can be produced lightning fast, compared to the hand entry from paper log sheets.

Delivering recycled water to the masses

July 24, 2015 / nick / 0 Comments

Recycled water hydrant.

As we learned for #recycledwaterwednesday, “Water is cheap, maybe too cheap.” The biggest take away is hauling recycled water in 300 gallon loads is not economical. Even if you went with a larger truck load, like with Drought Savers, its still not priced appropriately. At no point in time will it be economical as you will exceed the weight limit on the road first. Better solutions must be found.

Today – lets discuss other ways to bring recycled water to the masses.

Ironhouse Sanitary District Recycled Water Fill Station Usage Statistics

July 13, 2015 / nick / 0 Comments

Ironhouse Sanitary District Recycled Water Blog

After my recent post about usage stats from CCCSD, I figured it would be only fair to see if the other area Residential Recycled Water Fill Stations posted data of their own. The only other district to do so is Ironhouse Sanitary District in Oakley.

Ironhouse Sanitary District has their own website where they blog about news and updates for their Residential Recycled Water Fill Station. You can access it here: http://isdfillstation.blogspot.com/

On Friday, July 10th, they published their Residential Recycled Water Fill Station stats dating back from June 20th, 2015 up to July 8th, 2015.

Plumbing Recycled Water to on-site Irrigation – What you need to know – it is ILLEGAL to do it!

June 25, 2015 / nick / 0 Comments

Recycled water has been made freely available and now you’re spending time to drive to a fill station, load it up into your container and take it home. Once there you hook up your pump and hoses and hand water it all over your yard. This all takes a lot of time.

Thinking of a way to be more efficient you might assume that plumbing it to the irrigation system is a genius idea. If only.

Free recycled water may be perfect for use on your lawn, but delivery through your clean drinking water irrigation pipes is not. There are some severe implications with relation to public health and the environment that you need to know first. Endangering public health and the environment could kill these free recycled water programs for everyone. Continue reading

CCCSD Fill Station Routes Traffic Along New Route

June 24, 2015 / nick / 0 Comments

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Due to heavy traffic volumes at the Recycled Water Fill Station at the Household Hazardous Wastes facility at Central Contra Costa Sanitary District, a new traffic pattern has been implemented to better serve the community.

Visitors to the fill station are to enter through the gate near the intersection of Imhoff Drive and Blum Road. Drive south along the frontage road and turn left on to Imhoff Place near the CCCSD Headquarters Office Building and visitor parking lots. Then drive north down Imhoff Place, on the left as depicted by the cones to the Recycled Water fill station area.