Water Cooler Use and Maintenance Page 2
Little things you may not think about -
1. If you store your full bottles where the sun can shine on them, that is not good. Even though we use standard, high quality polycarbonate bottles, and fill them with our filtered and sterilized premium quality spring water, sunlight is destructive to plastic. The ultra violet light is not good either for the bottles, or the water. When bottles are left in the sun, the water will unquestionably pick up a taste from the plastic bottles.
2. If you place your water cooler where the sun can shine on it, you will have the same problems mentioned above - PLUS- your cooler may not have the cooling power to fight the sun. The cold water may run warm. Also, the sun shining on a partly empty bottle will heat the air in the bottle, building pressure that will force the water out. You will wonder, later on, why you will have a pool of water on your rug around the cooler, and you will swear that it has a leak.
3. Please don’t forget to unplug your cooler before you clean it. Water and electricity don’t mix. We love our customers - we want you all to remain healthy. Kindly also remember to plug it back in again later. You would be surprised how many times we have responded to a “cooler isn’t working” call, only to find that it wasn’t plugged in!
4. Please handle cooler bottles gently. They cost a lot of money, and are relatively fragile. Every time we wash and fill a batch, we have to discard some, due primarily to damage caused by rough handling. If you will help us keep our costs down, we will pass that savings along to you, through the price of our products.
The Food Handlers Safety Course - whether in the home, on the job, or in a food processing operation. When we took this course, we were amazed at the things we didn’t realize we didn’t know. For example, are you aware that 90% of the “bugs” you and your family come down with originate right in your very own refrigerator? We strongly recommend that every man, women and child should take even the short course. You will be grateful that you did. You and your family will, from that point on, be both healthier and happier.
Laboratory follow -up Each year, the US Environmental Protection Agency, The Mass. Dept. of Public Health, and the US Food and Drug Administration come out with new standards and regulations for the food and beverage industries. We are members of the North East Water Bottles Association, and the Massachusetts Water Works Association. Also we receive eleven industry trade journals each month. We keep up with what is the best technology for our industry, as well as the latest regulations. Our policy is to be Pro-Active - if anything we always over comply. It is better for you and for us. We use only State Certified laboratories, and spend over $11,000.00 a year on testing. For further information on the laboratories we use, or on specific water analysis results, please call us, during business hours at (508) 696-3066.
1. If you store your full bottles where the sun can shine on them, that is not good. Even though we use standard, high quality polycarbonate bottles, and fill them with our filtered and sterilized premium quality spring water, sunlight is destructive to plastic. The ultra violet light is not good either for the bottles, or the water. When bottles are left in the sun, the water will unquestionably pick up a taste from the plastic bottles.
2. If you place your water cooler where the sun can shine on it, you will have the same problems mentioned above -
3. Please don’t forget to unplug your cooler before you clean it. Water and electricity don’t mix. We love our customers -
4. Please handle cooler bottles gently. They cost a lot of money, and are relatively fragile. Every time we wash and fill a batch, we have to discard some, due primarily to damage caused by rough handling. If you will help us keep our costs down, we will pass that savings along to you, through the price of our products.
The Food Handlers Safety Course -
Laboratory follow -
Chilmark Spring Water Co., Inc. June 2011
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