Culligan Quench of Seattle

Culligan Quench bottleless water coolers.

Take on-demand hydration to the next level. Culligan Quench bottleless water coolers and ice machines use advanced filtration and sanitization technologies such as carbon filtration and reverse osmosis to remove sediment, reduce lead and other chemical contaminants, and get rid of off-tastes and odors. By providing filtered water through a broad array of machines, our bottleless water coolers offer users countless consumption choices.

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Seattle water quality: then

Early settlers of Seattle built the first water distribution system using open wooden flumes, which pulled water from Lake Washington. By the 1880s, private companies began developing more extensive systems to pump water from Lake Washington and Lake Union to small reservoirs and tanks in the growing city.

The Great Fire of 1889 proved that these early sources couldn’t provide enough water for homes, businesses, and firefighting. Residents voted overwhelmingly to build a system connected with the Cedar River. After more than a decade of legal wrangling, 2 new reservoirs were built to store water: The Volunteer and Lincoln (now Cal Anderson).

Seattle grew rapidly as tens of thousands of visitors and residents came to Seattle from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909. In response, city engineers constructed a larger pipeline from the Cedar River to triple the system’s delivery capacity. In the 1010s, the Masonry Dam was built to store Seattle’s new water surplus.

Engineers continued to construct pipelines and storage reservoirs, including the Bow Lake Reservoir, South Fork Dam, and Lake Forest Park Reservoir, to store water from the Cascades. In the late 1970s, city planners began to cover the open reservoirs to enhance water quality, reduce water loss from evaporation, and improve security.

Culligan Quench water coolers.

Worried about contaminants in your drinking water? We offer a full complement of water filtration and sanitization technologies to remove sediment, reduce chemical contaminants, including lead, and get rid of off-tastes and odors. Depending on your local water quality, your Water Expert may recommend our NSF-certified carbon filtration, which works great for water with TDS (total dissolved solids) levels under 250 ppm (parts per million) or our NSF-certified reverse osmosis (RO) filtration, which is the standard for water with TDS levels over 250ppm.