Having clean and safe water in your home here on the Kenai Peninsula can be harder than it would seem. The unique topography, and geological features of the Southern Kenai Peninsula, can pose challenges to a service that many in the lower 48 take for granted.

What Is Bulk Potable Water Delivery and its advantages / disadvantages?

Bulk Potable Water Delivery is a service provided to those who cannot 

connect to the public water supply directly. This service involves trucking potable drinking water in bulk from public water systems to a customer’s location and offloading the water into their private cistern. Advantages to using this service are, safe / potable water on demand without testing and filtering required. This water is treated, tested, and trucked to your location and does not require any additional maintenance outside of occasional cistern cleaning. Disadvantages to having Bulk Potable Water Delivery are being on a limited quantity of water, having an indefinite monthly expense, and having a dedicated location on your property or in your home for your cistern.

What is Drilling a Well and its advantages / disadvantages?

Drilling a Well on the Southern Kenai Peninsula involves transporting a drill rig to a customer’s location, boring a hole into the ground, and hoping to hit a quality water aquafer. Accomplishing this can be quite a gamble due to the many different types of ground in the area, the quality / safety of the water, and the quantity of water that the well produces. The subterranean geological landscape of the Southern Kenai Peninsula has large coal veins and other porous materials that allow toxic gases to travel along with the water. This can cause high levels of arsenic as well as other toxins, to mix with the water. Advantages of drilling a well are the set costs of well installation and having a personal water source. In theory, once the well installation is paid for, the cost of filtering items and routine maintenance should be low depending on the initial quality of the water. Disadvantages of having a well are huge upfront cost, possible poor or unusable water quality, low flow production, routine maintenance, possibility of drilling well and not finding adequate water while still owing the drilling costs.

What does this mean for the Homeowners of the Southern Kenai Peninsula?

Citizens of the Southern Kenai Peninsula must weigh all the pros & cons when determining what type of water supply option is right for them. However, the fastest, safest, and lowest upfront cost option is Bulk Potable Water Delivery.

To get information on what you need or how to start Bulk Potable Water Delivery to your location, call Moore & Moore Services Inc. Since 1979, we have been serving the residents of Southern Kenai Peninsula. Call (907)235-8837 or checkout our website at www.quickak.com