Category: Fill Stations (Page 3 of 4)

Residential Recycled Water Fill Stations. Usually tagged by agency name.

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

Sloshing Recycled Water in an IBC Tote

August 19, 2015 / nick / 0 Comments

The most common tank to use when transporting recycled water is a 275 or 300 gallon IBC tote. When full it weighs ~ 2500+ pounds, if we include the weight of the tote, its more like 2600 pounds. That weight in the back of most half tons trucks is too much and thus begins safety hazards associated with transporting recycled water.

Honda Ridgeline filled above capacity

Lets cue up a recent photo of a Honda Ridgeline filling up a 275 gallon tote. Please note that a Ridgeline is only rated at 1500 pounds payload capacity. A Ridgeline should only haul ~ 165 gallons if we include the weight of the tote. Direct your attention to the significant drop in the back end of the vehicle (and the wear and tear on the struts/read end) and the significant rise in the front end of the vehicle. This makes steering difficult and travel is rather unsafe.

All recycled water fill stations have stressed to not take more water than your vehicle can hold, but yet people still do it. This article has been designed to show you through a Youtube video what happens to water in a tote full and half full.

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

July Update – CCCSD Recycled Water Fill Station Usage Statistics

July 31, 2015 / nick / 0 Comments

Source: centralsan.org

We’re near the end of another month and people like stats, especially when we’re talking big numbers. Between longer hours, better traffic control and a more efficient way to track fill station usage, CCCSD sure has come a long way from the beginning. Just two weeks ago, if you asked for a data set you could get it that day, but the data was old. Data entry was making the entire process very inefficient.

When the fill station started, expectations were low so all data entry occurred on paper. Up until about the middle of July, everything was done by hand. Now that they’ve written some custom software and acquired a drivers license scanner, data is available in 15 minute increments. Yes, once they get enough data they will know when the busy and slow times are. 🙂

The data charts I received are up to July 28th, 2015. I’ll post the graphics they create, plus some analysis.

Total gallons served: 4,313,000

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.

CCCSD Residential Recycled Water Fill Station Open 7 days a week!

July 29, 2015 / nick / 0 Comments

New Hours @ CCCSD recycled water fill station.

The Central Contra Costa Sanitary District will be open 7 days a week, starting this Sunday, August 2nd. Their new hours are as follows:

Monday through Friday 8AM to 6PM
Saturday & Sunday 8AM to 4PM

They have hired quite a few new fill stations attendants to help you obtain your Free Recycled Water. Their new signs, alerting you to the change should be out tomorrow.

We have compiled a complete list of all Residential Recycled Water Fill Stations in California, and keep it updated as data becomes available.

Is Hauling Recycled Water Economical?

July 22, 2015 / nick / 0 Comments

Water is a finite resource, much like oil. And water comes with a cost, much like oil. The difference is we need water to survive. Our bodies are made up of 55-65% water. Without it we dehydrate and eventually die. Some would argue that oil is the same way, except society lasted for thousands of years without it. However, the oil industry charges a steep price for oil. With those profits they build pipelines for the largest users, like airports use jet fuel and ships at port use diesel.

When it comes to water, we as a society have built pipelines to deliver water from faraway lands to other remote places. We’ve run pipes to our homes, businesses and parks. There are drinking water mains in the street that have charged hydrants for firemen to use, baseball and football stadiums are plumbed with the stuff and yes, even oil refineries use drinking water to manufacture the oil we need to keep everything mechanical running.

But water is cheap, maybe too cheap.

In The News… Recycled Water Video Clips

July 16, 2015 / nick / 0 Comments

This page is meant to showcase all the news stories from the various agencies on Recycled Water in the SF Bay Area. If the videos don’t play, click the link to watch them on their respective stations websites. Enjoy!

News stations are mixed together. Tried to sort the video news stories with newest first. Will add more to the top when they become available.

Want to know how you can get started with recycled water? Or looking for a recycled water fill station? We have the information you need to water your yard with Recycled Water.

Posted: September 9, 2015

Free recycled water available for landscape use

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.