On Friday, June 27, 2014 8:11:27 PM UTC-4, Gordon Shumway wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:16:36 +0000 (UTC), "DannyD."

wrote:



The San Jose Water Company sells water out of the fire hydrants at $2.70 per

CCF (i.e., $2.71 per 748 gallons) after we rent a "portable meter", either a

1-inch portable meter (output is a male 3/4-inch garden hose thread) at

$29.48/month, or a 3-inch portable meter (output is a male 2-1/2 inch firehose

thread) at $176.98 a month.



I can't help you with advice for getting the water delivered, but I

can give you some advice if you opt for the "firehose" thread option.

Back in the day it was not all that uncommon for several neighboring

towns to all have different threads on their hydrants. There used to

be dozens of threads used on hydrants and I'm confident that has

become more standardized over the years. My advice is make sure you

know what threads are on the hydrant(s) you would use.



Good luck.

If he rents a truck, then he needs a 1000 gallon tank, which
isn't going to be cheap, plus a pump probably. Then he has to store
the tank when it's not used, put it on the truck, secure it somehow
etc. It doesn't sound that practical to me. And if you screw up and
the tank full of water slides off when making a turn, you could
crush the hippie chick in the VW.

So.... Why not just rent a potable water tank truck? I would think
they must be available. And you can probably get one that holds
more than 1000 gallons too.

I'm left wondering where the water goes when it's delivered? Are
these folks going to get at least a 500 gallon tank to put it in?
Or is someone going to be making daily deliveries?

And the final question is how much you all would save assuming
you chip in, compared to an existing water delivery service.
If it's not a lot, IMO it may not be worth getting
involved.

Also, IDK how this all works, but a lot of times, when a community
is hit like this, doesn't the local fire company start delivering
water for free or some nominal charge? Maybe getting that organized
would be more productive.