Comments from our customers-

Kyle Water Tower

“Please let Ron and everyone there who were involved, know how much we appreciate the service that was provided to us. Thank you for your quick response and action.”

Harper Wilder
Public Works Director
City of Kyle Public Works

Thanks for reading my blog! 2010 in review

There will be mort articles about the importance of inspecting & cleaning water tanks in 2010. The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,800 times in 2010. That’s about 9 full 747s.

 

In 2010, there were 6 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 24 posts. There were 9 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 7mb. That’s about a picture per month.

The busiest day of the year was October 15th with 94 views. The most popular post that day was Commercial Diver Wanted for Tank & Tower work.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were ronperrin.com, en.wordpress.com, tankdiver.us, rpwtnewsletter.wordpress.com, and tankdiver.wordpress.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for commercial divers wanted, drysuit, commercial diver wanted, diver, and divers wanted.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Commercial Diver Wanted for Tank & Tower work January 2010

2

Have your potable water storage tanks been cleaned lately ? March 2008

3

Underwater Services offered to U.S. Water Systems November 2008

4

Remote Underwater Camera Vs Diver inspection February 2010

5

Management Staff April 2010

Water tank cleaning and inspection video

See my blog at www.ronperrin.wordpress.com to see list of contaminats found in potable water tanks and video of water tank inspection with an ROV & diver cleaning.

Is your drinking water clean?

Cleaning these tanks and towers is important and often overlooked.  The photo below is from a July 2007 cleaning of a potable water storage tank.  This is public drinking water that goes straight to the tap.   With all of the other problems water utility directors face day to day thinking about having the floor of their storage tanks cleaned is often overlooked.  In addition in the past it has been a major disruption to water service.  The tanks would normally need to be taken out of service drained and then cleaned.  Buckets and shovels have often been the primary tools. Today, potable water dive crews can enter the water system wearing a dry suit that keeps the diver in his own environment away from the water.  They are able to vacuum the floor of the tank clean removing sediment that may contain or become a future breeding ground for harmful bacteria.  See www.ronperrin.com for more information.

How they do it:

Divers wear dry suits so no part of the man is in contact with the water in the system.  They are then washed down with a chlorin solution to be in compliance with State and AWWA regulations. Below a diver prepares to enter the water storage tank.