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To save some money the Zorton household decided to buy a 400gallon water tank and begin hauling our own water. In our area of AK this is common, especially living in the hills where a well could cost $30k and net bad water.
There are pull up pumping stations throughout the city that will pump loads of water for around .0277c a gallon. All you need is a truck that will be powerful enough to haul the water, a ball valve and some hose. A local welding company has an entire plastics divison almost entirely dedicated to providng tanks and cisterns. The cisterns are little more than a reinforced plastic tank that is buried underground. Most people of any intelligence put some heat tape on the intlet line to prevent troublesome freezeups.
I have been having my water delivered for 10yrs with the delivery truck pulling the cap from a PVC pipe and filling until the vent burps water out. I suspect there are onerous regulations on keeping their truck tanks clean but it hasn't been am issue i've been concerned with.
Now that I'm hauling my own though, I thought a dose of iodine every now and then would help us make sure we got our iodine quota as a family and would keep any nasties from popping up. I spent some time this morning looking up what that would take and ran across the above PDF. Spend 15 minutes and look at all the required contraptions that are required in Ohio via law and code. Given all the requirements what should be a simple $3-4k system has balloned to some sort of monster only a committee could cook up.
Regulation adds cost and builds dependence on "the proper authorities". Cost wasn't our only concern with deciding to haul our own water though. Despite some nice software at the water delivery company calculating how much water to deliver, we would occasionally run out. They even provided an answering service for that 2am moment when you realized you had one more toilet flush in each bathroom. The trouble is, you had to wait for them to make a delivery the next day, which could be as late as 5pm. This issue is moot now as we can make our own run in for water. The local pumping stations even make a point of advertising they have 24/7 availability.
[–] Zorton [S] ago
To save some money the Zorton household decided to buy a 400gallon water tank and begin hauling our own water. In our area of AK this is common, especially living in the hills where a well could cost $30k and net bad water.
There are pull up pumping stations throughout the city that will pump loads of water for around .0277c a gallon. All you need is a truck that will be powerful enough to haul the water, a ball valve and some hose. A local welding company has an entire plastics divison almost entirely dedicated to providng tanks and cisterns. The cisterns are little more than a reinforced plastic tank that is buried underground. Most people of any intelligence put some heat tape on the intlet line to prevent troublesome freezeups.
I have been having my water delivered for 10yrs with the delivery truck pulling the cap from a PVC pipe and filling until the vent burps water out. I suspect there are onerous regulations on keeping their truck tanks clean but it hasn't been am issue i've been concerned with.
Now that I'm hauling my own though, I thought a dose of iodine every now and then would help us make sure we got our iodine quota as a family and would keep any nasties from popping up. I spent some time this morning looking up what that would take and ran across the above PDF. Spend 15 minutes and look at all the required contraptions that are required in Ohio via law and code. Given all the requirements what should be a simple $3-4k system has balloned to some sort of monster only a committee could cook up.
Regulation adds cost and builds dependence on "the proper authorities". Cost wasn't our only concern with deciding to haul our own water though. Despite some nice software at the water delivery company calculating how much water to deliver, we would occasionally run out. They even provided an answering service for that 2am moment when you realized you had one more toilet flush in each bathroom. The trouble is, you had to wait for them to make a delivery the next day, which could be as late as 5pm. This issue is moot now as we can make our own run in for water. The local pumping stations even make a point of advertising they have 24/7 availability.