Water Sources
Fill Site
A fill site is the location where water-hauling apparatus reload during a tanker shuttle, often a strong hydrant or a drafting source with a fill engine. How fast tankers can fill there sets one half of the shuttle's sustained flow.
Every tanker shuttle has two ends: the dump site near the fire and the fill site where empty tankers reload. A good fill site fills tankers quickly — a stout hydrant, or an engine drafting from open water and pumping into the tankers — so the haulers spend less of each trip standing still.
Because the shuttle's sustained flow depends on cycle time, a slow fill site throttles the whole operation no matter how many tankers are running. Picking and setting up a fast fill site is as important to rural water supply as the haul itself.
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