On-Site Hydration Services is the first call for water station rentals in Irving. We tow the unit in, set it a short walk from your crew, and hand out cold filtered water the same day, whether the site is a raw pad off Longhorn Drive or a load in at an open air pavilion in Las Colinas. Call now and we will hold a unit for your dates. Or request a free quote online and you will have an answer back before the day ends.
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Hand labor crews have a water standard of their own, and it is a simple one. Cool water, clean water, close enough to reach on a real break. We set every Irving station to that test, then hold it there with a service visit on a schedule instead of a promise. Years of North Texas work sit behind that, on federal builds, school jobs and open ground west of the airport. We are SAM.gov registered, licensed and insured, and the network behind us carries an A plus BBB rating with a 99.9 percent incident free record. Call us with your headcount and we will tell you how many fill points the site needs, or request a free quote and we will have it back the same day.
One Signature trailer can pour for a weekend concert and be working a slab pour a couple of days later. Hiring one company for your events and a separate one for your worksites makes no sense. Either way, the planning, the delivery, and the refills are ours.
The onboard cooling unit keeps the tank genuinely cold all the way through an Irving afternoon, and that single detail carries the whole thing. Warm water is water people abandon, and midsummer is exactly when a crew or a crowd is drinking the most. Cold water gets finished, and finishing it is what keeps heat illness off the site.
Typical Irving deliveries land in about 45 minutes, and we keep emergency runs going around the clock whenever a heat advisory or a power shutoff hits the Dallas Fort Worth metro. The morning a foreman finds his 40-person crew stuck with one warm cooler, speed is the whole game.
One rule sits under every job we take: water that people walk past might as well not be there. We've stood on a bare Irving site and watched shrink-wrapped pallets cook next to the job-trailer while the crew baked thirty yards off. We've watched the opposite too, a chilled station ten steps off the work face run bone-dry twice inside one shift. Everything that matters lives in the distance between those two pictures. Which is why we don't drop a unit and disappear. We match it to your headcount or your gate count, set the refill rhythm to how hard you're really pulling on it, and treat a heat call the way you'd want your own treated, meaning right now, because out here one hot hour can swing the whole day.
We drop before the airport rush. Traffic onto the west side stacks up on SH 161 and North Beltline from about 6:30 on, and a crew that started early to beat the heat cannot sit and wait on a delivery. So jobsite drops go out pre dawn. We confirm the window the day before and text the driver's ETA the morning of.
“Our headcount tripled between phases and they had a second unit at the new laydown yard before I got around to asking. Cold every morning. The dated tickets saved me most of an afternoon when our file got reviewed.”
“We had eleven weeks to finish a campus and every one of them was hot. They serviced on the same day each week without a phone call from me. That is the review.”
“They walked the lot before quoting and put the unit where my guys already walk to the gang box. Sounds like nothing. It is the reason the thing gets used instead of ignored.”
The 12,000 acre master planned core, with roughly 25 million square feet of office space and more than 2,000 companies. Lake Carolyn, Williams Square and the entertainment district put event crowds and office campuses within a few blocks of each other. Deliveries here are about access and appearance as much as water, since the unit often sits in front of a tower.
Data center campuses and the industrial spine that feeds them. Raw pads, long build calendars and no permanent water line for months at a stretch. This is standing contract territory rather than a weekend rental.
Federal and airport adjacent construction on ground leased from DFW International Airport. Every delivery here gets badged, escorted and scheduled to somebody else's window. We build the extra lead time into the quote instead of discovering it on delivery day.
Largely residential now, and the former Dallas Cowboys headquarters and training site until the team moved in 2016. The work here is smaller. Park programming, neighborhood events and short residential and utility jobs that need a unit for a week, not a season.
Where the city's own civic calendar happens, from the December holiday parade to the January winter festival. Street closures and parade routes drive the placement conversation more than headcount does. We stage off the route and walk the last stretch with the event lead.
A 744 acre campus with its own DART Orange Line station on the west side of the city. Athletics, orientation weekends and campus maintenance all run through the hottest weeks of late August. Rail access makes staging simple, and the campus roads take a towable unit without a problem.
The data center wave has reached the Dallas Fort Worth metro, and those jobs drink differently. Hundreds of trades spread over huge fenced pads, gates that stay busy around the clock, and safety programs that expect a documented cold-water point. We stage site-ready stations where the badge checks and the foot traffic actually are, and our trucks keep them full on a 24/7 cadence for as long as the build runs.
Two very different addresses in this city, and not much in between. Raw dirt on a Longhorn Drive pad with no water line for a year, and finished pavement at a Las Colinas plaza where the unit has to sit tight and look right. Both get the same cold water and the same service visit.
With a frame, a hitch, and tires under it, the unit hauls out to a remote build in the Dallas Fort Worth metro, an event field, a working orchard, or a disaster staging yard with equal ease. Irving contractors and event planners request this exact rig by name. The whole design is built around backing in, leveling off, and pouring cold by the same afternoon.
| No. of stations | (4) Bottle Filling Stations |
| Length | 12' 3" |
| Weight | 3,100 lbs. |
| Height | 8' |
| Fresh water tank | 300 Gallons |
| Power requirements | 1 to 4 dedicated 20A/120V circuits OR 1 dedicated 50A/240V circuit |
| No. of AC units | 1 |
The biggest federal job in the city right now sits at 6046 North Beltline Road. Trammell Crow Company and ElmTree Funds are building a single story, 259,947 square foot build to suit on roughly 27 acres ground leased from DFW International Airport, to house the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Texas Service Center under a 20 year GSA lease. Manhattan Construction Company holds the general contract. That is a big slab and a long exterior phase on airport adjacent land, which in North Texas means months of the build calendar land in the hottest part of the year.
Airport property changes how we deliver. DFW International Airport covers 17,207 acres across four cities, and almost 6,000 of those acres sit inside Irving city limits, with six terminals and 224 gates moving cargo and passengers all day. A drop on or beside that property carries airport authority site rules on top of city rules, plus badge lists, escorts and a delivery window somebody else controls. We send certificates and an additional insured endorsement before the truck leaves. And we confirm the escort the day before, because a driver sitting at a gate with 300 gallons behind him is helping nobody.
Agency buying has its own paperwork, and we are already in it. We are SAM.gov registered, so a contracting officer can find us, and we keep dated service tickets on every visit rather than reconstructing them later when somebody asks. Federal safety files want a named water source and a record that it was maintained. We hand over the record. It is a small thing until the week it is not.
Defense work sits right next door too. Grand Prairie, about seven miles south, holds Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control with roughly 5,000 employees and the U.S. headquarters of Airbus Helicopters. Both run large manufacturing campuses with ramp, yard and hangar adjacent work that carries the same sun exposure as a job site, even though the core business happens indoors. A single unit based in Irving reaches either campus on the same morning run.
Six bottles per person on a 100-degree day in the Dallas Fort Worth metro, a 38-person crew, and you're already at roughly 228 plastic bottles to buy, cart in, ice down, and throw away. That's one day. The season is where it gets ugly.
Multiply across a 175-day build and the tally clears 39,000 bottles, with the larger commercial jobs running far past that. A single trailer makes the entire pile disappear, leaving cold water at the tap and nothing for the dumpster.
Sustainability is the easy part of the pitch. Roughly 60 million plastic bottles get thrown out daily in this country, only about a third are ever recycled, and one bottle can sit in a landfill for centuries. Worth reporting, sure. But the Irving project managers who actually switch usually do it to kill the daily hassle, not to pad a sustainability slide. A shared trailer means no recurring bottle order, no cooler going warm before first break, no wall of empty jugs baking by the job-trailer. The super runs the build, not the water program.
Because our own potable tankers cover the refills, the supply scales with the job rather than fighting it. Double the crew for a big pour and they still can't drink faster than the plan. And the tankers just swing back and bring the level up.
Want this math run for your own Irving job? Two minutes on the phone gets you a real number.
A free two day city event on July 3 and 4 with a fireworks show over the lake. Two days of standing crowds in the first week of July, on a waterfront with limited shade. Placement beats unit count on this one, because the lawn and the vendor row are two separate problems.
The 40 acre center runs hundreds of events a year, and the crews who build those shows work the dock and the apron before doors ever open. Network X Americas lands in May and DFW Fiber Fest in late August. Both load in outside.
An open air concert venue in Las Colinas with dozens of shows booked across the season, including August dates. Alcohol service and direct sun make a free water point a real safety item, not a nicety.
A one day outdoor food festival in the back half of September, when North Texas afternoons still climb into advisory range. Long dwell times and slow moving lines are exactly what a bottle fill point is for.
A water source people don't trust gets ignored, and an ignored station is rented money wasted. That's why municipal water doesn't reach the tap raw on our trailers. It passes through three filter stages and a UV chamber, then an onboard cooling unit drops the temperature. The result tastes clean and comes out cold, even on the worst Irving afternoon of the year.
The opening filter traps sand, scale, and the fine grit local mains occasionally push through. On a dusty Irving lot, that's what keeps a pour from tasting like the parcel it's parked on.
Activated carbon comes next, lifting the chlorine bite and the dull seasonal notes local tap can carry until the taste lands clean and neutral. When it's 100 out, that flavor decides whether a crew keeps drinking or walks past the tap dry.
A finer cartridge then catches the microscopic particles that slip past the first two, so what reaches the spout is clear rather than merely cold for the crews and crowds across Irving.
The last step is an ultraviolet chamber that wipes out bacteria and microbes without adding a single chemical. Even after a long tow to the far edge of the Dallas Fort Worth metro, the water off the nozzle is clean.
Along the wall sit four adjustable push-back taps, press a bottle to the bar and it pours. One of them is set at ADA-reachable height, so a single trailer includes everybody at an Irving crew or crowd with no add-on gear. Out back, a large-jug spout services five-gallon coolers and hydration packs, while a bank of hose connection taps handles work-site chores, event support, and refills down the orchard rows. Stainless, food-grade plumbing the whole way through keeps the filtered, chilled water at quality right to the spout.
Every Signature trailer carries a 300-gallon load, roughly 2,400 cups at sixteen ounces each, and we recharge it on demand, so the unit doesn't turn into the choke point on a busy Irving shift or a packed show night.
There's nothing here for you to run. Placement, fresh-water load, hookup, that's all on us, and then we walk your Irving crew or event staff through the basics before our truck pulls away.
People count, number of days, where exactly it parks on your Irving site, and what power is there. Those four answers let us spec it correctly the first time around.
Reckon roughly 45 minutes from our yard to anywhere in Irving or the Dallas Fort Worth metro, with round-the-clock emergency runs whenever a heat advisory or a power shutoff hits the area.
Once on site we set it level, charge the 300-gallon tank, and tie in power off one to four standard 120V circuits, or a single 50-amp 240V drop, depending on what the site gives us.
After that the tankers cycle back on a cadence matched to how fast your crew or crowd pulls it down, and we maintain the unit through the whole rental term.
No power on the parcel at all? We price that in. The unit draws very little, and with the service fleet backing it we've run Irving stations on lots that had no permanent power whatsoever. Lay out what the site offers and the rest is on us.
The construction sanitation standard, 29 CFR 1926.51, requires an adequate supply of potable water at every place of employment, and it has to be reachable for the people working there. On top of that sits the General Duty Clause, Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, which requires an employer to keep a workplace free of recognized hazards that are likely to cause death or serious harm. OSHA has used that clause to pursue heat related enforcement. In plain terms, a compliance officer can walk onto a site on a heat advisory day and ask what your water plan is.
Federal heat rulemaking is still moving. The proposed heat injury and illness prevention standard was published in the Federal Register in August 2024, and as proposed it sets an initial trigger at a heat index of 80 degrees with added protections at 90. Contractors who are ahead of this are not waiting for a final text. They write a documented heat plan now and name a real water source inside it, the same way the crews using our San Antonio temporary water station rentals already do downstate. A pallet of bottles nobody counts is hard to put in that document. A serviced station with dated tickets is not.
Then there is the practical side. Our unit draws power from one to four dedicated 20A/120V circuits or a single 50A/240V connection, so most Irving deployments tie into temporary power a site already planned rather than adding a generator and the permit conversation that comes with one. City special event work and any street closure need coordination with Irving before the date. On airport ground leased property the airport authority's site rules stack on top of the city's. We handle the scheduling piece of that so it does not land on your superintendent at seven in the morning.
Need a station your written heat plan can point to? We can have one pouring cold within days.
A lot of the Dallas Fort Worth metro jobs have shaped how we run the next one. A few that stuck with us:
Safety manager, data center pad in late July. His trade count went from about eighty to just over three hundred when the shell work started, and the only water point was at the truck gate, a long walk from the deck. We had already walked the phasing plan with him, so the second unit landed at the new laydown yard the same week the count jumped. Break rotations stopped backing up. His own file got the dated service tickets without him chasing them.
Athletic director, first week of August practice. Two sessions a day, morning and evening, with the practice fields a few hundred yards from the field house and a coaching staff already stretched. We set a unit at the gate the players walk through and put the jug fill on the coaches' side so the team water bottles got topped between periods. No cooler runs. The trainer told us the difference showed up in the afternoon session, not the morning one.
Facilities lead, freeze week with the tap under advisory. Their building was on generator power and the local water was under a boil notice, with about ninety people still coming in to keep the operation up. We rolled a unit in at 5am with its own 300 gallons and its own filtering, and set it inside the dock door so nothing froze. They ran on it for six days. We refilled twice on a route that had four other stops like it that week.
August practice is the hardest week of the year for a school athletic program in North Texas, and it is not close. Irving ISD covers 32 campuses, so the district is running football, band, cross country and soccer sessions on a lot of grass at once, in the same weeks the city has historically recorded its hottest readings. Practice fields sit a long way from a field house. A cooler carried out at 6am is warm by nine and ignored by ten. We park a unit at the gate the kids already walk through.
The University of Dallas sits on 744 acres on the west side, with 2,076 students as of fall 2024 and its own DART Orange Line station that opened in July 2012. The Crusaders practice and compete through the same heat window, and the campus runs orientation and move in weekends in late August on top of it. A fixed rail station makes staging easy, and that helps on a campus where the parking plan changes every weekend.
Golf and racing bring a different problem. The TPC Four Seasons course in Las Colinas hosted the PGA Tour's HP Byron Nelson Championship every year from 1986 until a 2022 transition, and a tournament day means spectators standing in the open from morning through the afternoon with no way to leave and come back. Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie has run thoroughbred racing since 1997, including a Memorial Day meet with more than a million in stakes purses. Both are long dwell crowds. Placement decides whether a unit gets used or walked past.
Youth and club tournaments are the volume business under all of that. Weekend brackets on city fields pull families who arrive at eight and leave at four, and the vendor tents run out of bottled water by early afternoon on a hot Saturday. A bottled water refill station rental solves that without anyone hauling pallets. We size for the bracket, not the field count, because the crowd follows the games.
July is the average hottest month here, and the all time high on the books for this city is 112 degrees, set in 1980. That number is the reason the summer calendar and the summer build schedule collide the way they do. The Fourth of July event and the late August convention crowd land in that same window. So do the August concert dates and the school bond's push to finish campuses before the fall semester. A general contractor with a hard completion date has every reason to keep working through the middle of the day rather than shift to mornings only, which raises the water need instead of lowering it.
The other end of the calendar produced this region's worst water event. During the February 2021 storm, DFW Airport recorded 2 below zero on February 16, the coldest North Texas reading in 72 years. More than 12 million Texans had their water service disrupted by frozen and burst pipes, and over 200,000 people lived in areas where the water system stopped working entirely. Boil water advisories affecting close to 12 million people stayed in place until February 27. A filtered, self contained unit with its own tank is a direct answer to that failure, whether it lands at a shelter, a distribution point or a plant trying to keep its own staff going while the tap is under an advisory.
What that two peak calendar means for us is scheduling, not marketing. From May through September our jobsite drops go out before dawn, refill visits get added rather than argued about when the heat index climbs, and we size the fill point count off the crew number at peak rather than the number on the contract. In December and January the same units go to standing crowd events where the need is a beverage source, not heat safety. We keep units in reserve through both windows. February 2021 is why.
Longhorn Drive is the longest running job in town. Microsoft and QTS are together planning seven data centers in Irving, with Microsoft building four of them. Microsoft's DC3 sits on the company's 55 acre campus at 6431 Longhorn Drive at 415,900 square feet and 43 megawatts, DC1 and DC2 together span 700,000 square feet with 75.2 megawatts of critical power, and the QTS buildings sit at 6300 Longhorn Drive. The abatement terms tied to that work stretch out to 2028 and 2029. So this is not an event rental. It is a fixed site with trade counts that swing by hundreds between phases, and a gate that moves as the pads fill in.
The school work has a harder clock. Irving ISD voters approved a bond package in May 2023 that funds full replacements of Barton Elementary, Farine Elementary and Crockett Middle, renovations across 32 campuses, two childcare centers, a new Career and Technical Education Center and a replacement Student Transportation and Logistics Center. The published timeline pushed the transportation center through summer 2025 and the three school replacements through summer 2026. Campus work gets squeezed into the weeks students are gone. Which puts the heaviest days of that build in July and August, on purpose.
Underneath the headline jobs there is a steady base of smaller work. The city tracks 200 registered construction projects, 41 of them new builds and 159 renovations, covering 5,792,774 square feet. An H-E-B store project carried a June 2026 completion target. An 11,000 square foot retail development had site work published in July. Most of those are short jobs with a crew of fifteen and no water line yet, and they call us with three days notice rather than three months. We keep units back for exactly that. A contractor running crews in more than one state keeps one vendor and one invoice, which is why the same fleet covers our Santa Fe mobile water station rentals up in New Mexico.
Two Irving area names tell you who is running this kind of work. Fluor Corporation moved its global headquarters to Las Colinas in 2005 and employs 26,866 people worldwide doing engineering, procurement and construction. TDIndustries, a mechanical contractor, is one of the top five employers in neighboring Farmers Branch with about 900 people. Those are firms whose whole business is putting crews outdoors. When a superintendent from that world calls, he already knows what he wants, and the question is placement, not whether cold water matters.
Everyone sees the trailer. What they don't see is the support fleet behind it, the trucks that deliver fresh water, hold reserve on site, and carry wastewater off, so a single call wraps the entire loop rather than stringing together three vendors.
Our tankers run drinking-grade water in bulk, recharging the 300-gallon tank on whatever interval the headcount demands. Those same trucks also top up storage tanks, holding tanks, and bladder bags whenever a single drop can't keep pace, like a big slab pour or a downtown night that packs the square.
When demand spikes we set out fold-flat bladders to bank extra fresh reserve, and on a drain-less lot they'll temporarily hold greywater too. It isn't fancy equipment, but it's what keeps a far-flung job in the Dallas Fort Worth metro pouring between tanker runs.
Water that has to move across a job is a pump truck's job, whether that's charging holding tanks or hauling supply end to end. It earns its keep on the sprawling parcels where the trailer and the fill point can end up a fair hike apart.
At the tail end, a vacuum truck draws off greywater and wastewater and carries it to permitted disposal, closing the loop clean. Nobody on your Irving crew is left guessing where the used water ended up. That piece was built into the plan from day one.
Every job gets its own setup. A remote parcel might run a station plus a bladder bag for reserve and a recurring water-truck schedule. A heavy event night might call for a pump truck to move supply and a teardown waste run at the end. Describe the shape of your job and we'll put together the right combination, on one invoice, handled by one crew that already knows the ground.
A couple of minutes on the phone is enough to get you a real number. Here's what we'll want to know, handy to have ready before you call, and proof that we size every job to the work in front of us rather than reading off one canned quote.
Bottled water reads as the budget choice on a purchase order. Its actual price tag is buried somewhere else, in handling hours, staging footprint, water that warms up, and trash piling up afterward, and on a hot inland lot each of those costs more than it would by the coast.
Look at everything bottled water actually demands of a person: cutting the order, receiving and breaking down pallets, icing coolers before dawn, topping them up through the day, then flattening empty bottles for the bin. On a large Irving crew that's hours of paid time burned every single day, scraped right off the work that's supposed to be getting done. The trailer erases that loop entirely. A local contractor once let us pencil it out with him, and the recovered labor by itself paid for the unit. His words were that the bottle runs had been quietly costing him close to a day of payroll a week. Our trailer arrives full, the tankers keep it full, and your superintendent owes it nothing but a parking spot.
Ice a cooler at 6 a.m. and by mid-morning in July around the Dallas Fort Worth metro it's as warm as a bath. Warm water is water people stop touching, and the slowdown that follows is precisely where heat illness gets its opening. A chilled station never rides that warm-up curve at all. Whatever pours at clock-out is as cold as the sunrise fill, which happens to be the moment a spent crew, or a crowd deep into a long concert, leans on it hardest.
Bottled-water pallets devour staging space, jam the lay-down area, and sit cooking in the sun until somebody finally cracks them open. Empties build up faster than anyone keeps up with, and on a tight commercial lot that pile turns into its own problem. Set a trailer in one parking stall instead and it serves a crew or crowd that would otherwise burn through hundreds of plastic bottles every day.
Every bottle bought is a bottle thrown out, and across a season a busy site or event generates a small mountain of them. That's a disposal line on the budget, a dent in the sustainability numbers, and, given that a single bottle can linger in the ground for centuries, a footprint that lasts longer than the project that made it. Move to a refill station and the line drops to zero, which finally gives your reporting a figure worth publishing.
We deliver across Irving and the rest of the Dallas Fort Worth metro from a local hub, and the same freeway grid puts our trucks into Grand Prairie or Coppell inside about twenty minutes. Farmers Branch is the same short run east. A company running crews in more than one Texas metro keeps one vendor and one invoice, since the same fleet covers Austin temporary water station rentals down in Central Texas. If your site sits anywhere in the list below, we deliver to it.
Working a corridor instead of a single address? We follow the main routes across the Dallas Fort Worth metro, so multi-site projects get the same fast turnaround as one stop.
Still weighing it? Call and ask. Most of these questions get settled in one short conversation.
Every fill point and spout gets sanitized on a set schedule that we write into the service plan when we size the job, not whenever somebody remembers. The tank gets drained, cleaned and sanitized between deployments, and again on a cycle during a long standing job like a data center pad. Each visit gets a dated ticket you can keep. On a summer job we usually run the cycle tighter than we do in January, because the unit is working harder. If your own safety program wants a specific interval, tell us and we will write the plan to it.
Bottle fill is for the individual, jug fill is for the group. Four bottle stations down the side handle a crew walking past on a break, and they are the right answer for an event crowd or a practice field. The rear jug fill is for topping off five gallon coolers, team bottles or a water buffalo you already have on site. Most Irving jobs use both in a day. A foreman fills the gang box coolers off the back at start of shift, then the crew uses the side stations the rest of the day.
Start with the crew number at peak, not the number on the contract. In real Texas summer heat, plan on roughly a quart per person per hour of work, which for a fifty person crew on a ten hour day comes to about 125 gallons, close to half a tank, before a hot week or a second shift pushes it higher. That is why we set the refill cadence with the order instead of waiting for a call. Shift length, how much of the work is in direct sun, and whether the site has shade all move the number. Give us the headcount and the schedule and we will tell you how many units and how often we come.
Yes, and we do it by default. Every service, refill and sanitizing visit gets logged with a date and stays in your record. That matters because the construction sanitation standard requires potable water be available, and proving it after the fact is much harder than keeping the record as you go. Agency and school district jobs ask for this most often. We are SAM.gov registered, and certificates plus an additional insured endorsement go out before delivery.
Every unit ships with an ADA accessible fill point at reachable height with clearance in front of it. It is built in rather than something we add when a customer asks. School districts and agency buyers usually raise this first, and the answer does not change from one unit to the next. If your site has soft ground or a slope, tell us early, because the approach to the unit matters as much as the fill point itself. We will pick the pad with that in mind.
Yes, with the right setup. We winterize for cold weather work and we can place a unit inside a dock door or a sheltered bay when a hard freeze is coming, which is what we did through the February 2021 event. Lines and fill points are the vulnerable part, not the tank. During that storm the airport recorded 2 below zero, and the units that kept working were the ones we had already repositioned. If a freeze warning is posted, call us and we will move or protect the unit before it hits.
They are different animals. A standing job like a Longhorn Drive pad is driven by crew count at peak, how often we come, how far the fill point is from the power, and how long the deployment runs. A weekend event is driven by crowd size, how many separate placements you need, and the load in and load out windows. Distance, site access and whether we need badged and escorted delivery all move it too. Tell us the site, the dates and the headcount and we will put a number in front of you the same day.
It happens on board. Water passes through three filter stages and then a separate UV treatment pass before it reaches the chiller and the fill points, so what comes out has been filtered and treated on the unit itself. Every line and spout on the trailer is rated for drinking water. We source from potable municipal supply and keep our own records on the treatment side. If your project or agency requires documented testing, ask us up front and we will build it into the service plan.
Same day is normal for the delivery itself. The gate is usually the longer pole. Airport ground leased property carries airport authority rules on top of city rules, so we need the badge list and the escort arranged, which we start the moment you book. Send us the site contact and we will handle the scheduling directly with them. Our drivers have run that stretch of North Beltline enough to know which approach saves twenty minutes.
Regularly. Grand Prairie is about seven miles south, Coppell borders us near the airport's southwest edge, and Farmers Branch is a short run east off I-635. All three sit on the same freeway grid our Irving routes already use. If you have crews in more than one of those cities we can put them on one schedule and one invoice.
Nothing changes for you, which is the point. Our units carry 300 gallons on board and filter and treat on the trailer, and our refill trucks pull from a verified potable source, so a local advisory does not take your water point offline. That is exactly the scenario that played out across North Texas in February 2021, when advisories covered close to 12 million people. We keep units in reserve through freeze weeks for that reason. Call dispatch and we will tell you what is available that day.
Sizing is the part most people get wrong, and they usually get it wrong in the same direction. They count the crew on the contract instead of the crew at peak. On a data center pad or a school campus rebuild, those two numbers can be a factor of three apart by the time the shell goes up.
Start with a simple rule of thumb. In real Texas summer heat, a person doing physical work outdoors goes through roughly a quart an hour. Multiply that by your peak crew and your shift length and you have a daily gallon figure. Fifty people on a ten hour day is about 125 gallons if everyone drinks what they should. Nobody drinks exactly what they should, but planning to the number is how you avoid running dry at two in the afternoon.
Event water gets booked last and it should not be. Production leads think about drinking water last. By then the stage plan has already taken the best spots, and the fire lane took the rest. Here is the order we wish people worked in.
First, count your build crew separately from your guests. The people setting up a plaza event in Las Colinas in August start hours before doors and work the hottest part of the day. They are a different population with a different schedule, and on a two day build they may go through more water per head than the audience does.
Most rental conversations in this trade sound the same for the first five minutes. Here are the questions that separate the companies, based on the ones our own customers have learned to ask after being burned somewhere else.
Ask who does the refills. Some companies subcontract that piece, which means the crew that shows up to service your unit does not work for the people who rented it to you. When something goes wrong you end up mediating between two vendors. We run our own trucks so there is one number.
Timing in this city is not one season, it is two peaks with a long quiet stretch between them. Knowing which one you are booking into changes how early you should call.
The long peak runs roughly May through September. July is the average hottest month here, and this city's record high of 112 degrees was set in 1980, so the top of that window is not theoretical. Everything competes for units at once during it. Construction crews pushing toward a fall deadline and summer campus work fill the calendar first, and outdoor concert dates and the July holiday crowds add to it.
Nobody likes a quote they cannot explain to their own boss. So here is what moves the number on a job in this city, in rough order of how much it matters.
Duration is the biggest lever and it is not linear. A multi month deployment on a fixed site is a different arrangement from a three day rental, because the service route and the refill schedule can be planned once instead of improvised. Long jobs are simply more efficient for us to run, and that shows up in what you pay.
“Load in started at six in the morning in August and the unit was already staged and cold when my first truck rolled. My build crew went through more water than the guests did. We booked them for the rest of the season that week.”
“Two a days are the worst week of our year. Putting a fill point at the practice gate ended the cooler runs, and the trainer noticed the difference in the evening session.”
“Our unit sits in front of a tower, so it has to look right and not just work. Theirs did. Delivery was quiet and early and nobody from the building complained once.”
“Badged site, escorted delivery, and they had the paperwork in before I asked for it. First vendor all year who did not make that my problem.”
“I needed a named water source I could put in a written heat plan, not a pallet of bottles that disappears by Wednesday. The service record made the audit boring. Water stayed cold through August, which is the part my crews actually care about.”
“Move in weekend plus practice plus our own maintenance crew, all in the same stretch of heat. One unit covered all three. They repositioned it midweek without any fuss.”
“Our dock apron is a long way from the break room and the afternoon pick rate showed it. A fill point at the apron fixed that in a week.”
“Unit moved with the work zone, no argument, no change order drama. And it showed up before the airport traffic every time.”
“We stood up a distribution point during a boil notice and needed safe water on site the same morning. They were there before we finished setting the tables. Six days of it, refilled twice, and not one call from me to make that happen.”
Service information current as of September 2026.
Tell us the headcount or the gate count, the rental dates, and where the trailer should park, and we'll spec the right setup and roll one out to you anywhere in the Dallas Fort Worth metro, usually inside about 45 minutes of dispatch.
