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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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Washington DC water quality: then

When the first settlers arrived in Washington DC, they had ample water sources, drawing from local springs like City Spring, Caffery’s Spring, Franklin Park (now Judiciary Square), and Smith Spring (now the McMillan Reservoir).  

The earliest documentation of water infrastructure dates from 1808. Residents living in the 600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue NW paid to “convey” water from the city spring to their neighborhood using wooden pipes. A year later, city planners appropriated $300 of public funds to build pipes from Caffery’s Spring to the northwestern Pennsylvania Avenue area. This system extended each year until 1850.  

When a congressionally funded engineering study identified the Potomac River as the future of Washington DC drinking water, the US Army Corps of Engineers designed and built the structures and facilities that became the Washington Aqueduct. 

An influx of new residents during WWII put a strain on the water system, leading the District Engineer, the U.S. Engineering Office, and the Engineer Commissioner of DC to submit a report to Congress with plans to construct, improve, and add on to the existing water system. This report has guided the modifications of the Washington DC drinking water system ever since. 

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.