Culligan Quench of Cincinnati

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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Cincinnati water quality: then

Cincinnati has certainly come a long way since it was first settled in 1788. Back then, early settlers used hollowed-out logs to carry untreated water from the Ohio River to the main city center. Residents could pay 25 cents a week to have their water delivered by horse and oxen from the natural spring to their homes, and by 1805, Cincinnati had 1,700 residents taking advantage of this service.

As the city grew, so too did the innovations in Cincinnati drinking water. A steam engine from the riverboat Vesta replaced horses and oxen in 1824 and could pump as much as 1.2 million gallons of water a day. In 1828, Cincinnati started replacing hollowed logs with sturdier cast iron pipes that could withstand higher pressure and water flow.

By the 1890s, Cincinnati blossomed into the nation’s fifth-largest city and boasted one the country’s best water treatment systems. In 1928, the city pioneered the use of activated carbon filtration to improve taste and eliminate odor from chlorine treatment. The distribution system expanded in 1941, and again in the 1970s with the construction of The Charles M. Bolton Plant that produced water from the Great Miami Aquifer. Later, Cincinnati became the first utility in the nation to adopt the use of granular activated carbon in 1992.

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.