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sparkey

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I have seen these setups in a couple different cities in our surrounding area. Its a water fill station for water trucks, farmers, tankers, etc. Basically its like a 2" line overhead that you can pull a truck under and fill your own tanks. You use a meterbox for the customer to pay for the water. I have spoke with the city about maybe installing this setup and putting it on a separate water meter so I don't pay sewage on this water. They said I would have to go through the water commission but thought maybe something like this might be a go. The city said they do get a lot of calls for people wanting bulk water for swimming pools, I guess the railroad buys water for something also. They said they would refer these customers to me in the future if I had this setup because they have to connect these customers to a hydrant and do the billing and its time consuming for the city to fulfill these requests.

Do any of you currently do this at your wash? What are your thoughts? Think it would sell?
 

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Might be something to explore. Out west a lot of people live "off the grid" and have cistern wells for domestic water use. I'll have to look into it
 

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Sparkey,

What you are describing appears to be what the drive up at the Bismarck City Main Shop Complex has. You may be able to google its set up & what they are charging etc. Before they expanded rural water that cost us a large number of our laundromat customers ... I could see that having even more potential.

mike www.kingkoin.com
 

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Sparkey,

What you are describing appears to be what the drive up at the Bismarck City Main Shop Complex has. You may be able to google its set up & what they are charging etc. Before they expanded rural water that cost us a large number of our laundromat customers ... I could see that having even more potential.

mike www.kingkoin.com
If you want to see an example of this setup. Go to national pride carwash website, click on street view and look across the road. There is a truck sitting there being filled on street view.
 
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