On-Site Hydration Services delivers temporary water station rentals across Lakewood, set up level and pouring cold, filtered water the day we arrive. You get a Signature Series trailer at a jobsite off Wadsworth Boulevard or a summer event at Belmar, and we handle every refill after that. Call us now or request a free quote, and we'll confirm your date and the exact drop spot on the same call.
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On-Site Hydration Services is the first call for drinking water in Lakewood because our Signature Series trailer does not depend on your site having a water line or an outlet. The 300-gallon tank rides in full, and the station needs one to four dedicated 20A/120V circuits or one 50A/240V circuit, which we plan with the site ahead of delivery. That's how a bare dirt pad off Union Boulevard gets cold water on the first morning of the job. We have spent years putting units where the plumbing isn't, and it's the work plenty of rental companies turn down. Call us today or get a free quote, and just tell us what the ground looks like.
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 a Lakewood 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 Lakewood 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 west Denver 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 Lakewood 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.
Sized for 5,600 feet. People lose water faster in Lakewood's thin, dry air than they would at sea level, often well before they feel thirsty. We plan more gallons per person here than we would in a lower city, and we shorten the refill window during hot weeks.
“Water was the one thing I never had to think about on this job. The truck showed up before we did most mornings.”
“Our vendors used to haul cases of bottled water every Saturday. Now they fill up at the station and the trash cans aren't overflowing by noon. The driver even helped us pick a spot out of the wind.”
“We had them drop a unit at our yard for the summer. Guys fill up before they head out to the trails and again when they come back. Simple.”
The First Friday gallery crawl moves people on foot along West Colfax for a whole evening. The 40 West ArtLine connects three parks with more than 100 art pieces, and a bottle fill station makes a handy meeting point along the route.
William Frederick Hayden Park tops out at 6,854 feet, and the trails get heavy use on summer mornings. We stage at trailhead lots for races and volunteer trail days, since the unit can't go up the trail itself.
Office campuses and the retail around Colorado Mills make this the spot for company picnics and parking lot events. We also cover these buildings when a water shutoff hits during a work week.
Colorado Christian University fields 15 college sports with more than 200 athletes, and summer camps and practice fill the fields nearby. Stations at the sideline beat a trip back to the locker room.
Bear Creek Lake Park and the neighborhoods by C-470 host youth sports, runs and summer programs. We reach this side fast from C-470 and Morrison Road.
The data center wave has reached the west Denver 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.
Around Lakewood, the same Signature Series unit can serve a high school practice field in August and move to a paving crew near Colorado Mills the following week.
With a frame, a hitch, and tires under it, the unit hauls out to a remote build in the west Denver metro, an event field, a working orchard, or a disaster staging yard with equal ease. Lakewood 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 |
Lakewood is mostly homes, offices and parks, but real farm work goes on right around it, plenty of it. Wheat Ridge, just across the city line to the north, still carries its old Carnation City name. Its zoning lets community gardens, farm stands and farmers markets set up in every district. Small vegetable farms and nursery yards around the county put crews in the sun from June until the first frost.
Field water is where we see the most corners cut. Every summer. A crew boss fills two coolers at 6 a.m. and parks them in a truck bed, and by noon the water is so warm that people quit drinking it. Our trailer parks at the edge of the field and stays cold all day, and the rear jug fill lets a crew lead refill coolers for the far rows without a drive back to the barn spigot.
Late July through September is the big push for local harvest crews, and at 5,600 feet the air is thin and dry, sweat dries off almost as fast as it forms, and workers lose water before they feel thirsty. Thirst shows up late. We plan more water per person than a farm at sea level would need. We set refill runs around your picking days, not around a fixed calendar that ignores the weather.
Markets and community garden work days are smaller jobs, but they add up quickly over a full growing season. One bottled water refill station at a Saturday market gives vendors and shoppers a spot to fill bottles, and it cuts the cases of plastic bottles every booth used to haul in. Call us in the spring and we'll build a season schedule, so you are not booking week to week in July.
Six bottles per person on a 100-degree day in the west Denver 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 Lakewood 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 Lakewood job? Two minutes on the phone gets you a real number.
Load-in crews and concession staff work long days at altitude with very little shade. A station in the crew lot keeps them away from the public fountains and out of the audience lines during a busy show.
Golden's biggest weekend lands in the hottest part of the summer, when curbside crowds stand in the sun for hours. We place units where parade watchers bunch up, with the ADA fill point facing the sidewalk.
Lakewood's fall festival runs across a full weekend, and the food and cider lines stay long through the afternoon. A station near the vendor rows gives families plain, cold water between samples.
Race directors stage aid stations in the trailhead parking lots, since a trailer can't go up the singletrack. We set the unit where runners pass twice, once heading out and again coming back.
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 Lakewood afternoon of the year.
The opening filter traps sand, scale, and the fine grit local mains occasionally push through. On a dusty Lakewood 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 Lakewood.
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 west Denver 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 a Lakewood 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 Lakewood 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 Lakewood crew or event staff through the basics before our truck pulls away.
People count, number of days, where exactly it parks on your Lakewood 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 Lakewood or the west Denver 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 Lakewood stations on lots that had no permanent power whatsoever. Lay out what the site offers and the rest is on us.
Federal OSHA rules already require potable drinking water at every place of employment, including construction sites. OSHA has also run a national heat enforcement program since 2022, which points inspectors at outdoor work on hot days. Its guidance is clear: water, rest and shade, plus a slower start for workers who are new to the heat. A federal heat standard has been proposed that would ask for written plans and water close to the work.
Colorado is one of a small group of states with its own heat rule, and it covers farm work. Senate Bill 21-087, the Agricultural Workers' Rights Act, was signed on June 25, 2021. It gave farm employees rest and meal breaks and set up health protections. The state labor rules that followed call for shade, cool drinking water and rest breaks once field temperatures climb past 80 degrees, with more steps on the hottest days.
Events fall under local city rules instead of state or federal ones. A festival, race or concert on Lakewood city property or a closed street needs a special event permit from the city, and the event plan is expected to cover the health and safety of the crowd. Check the current permit steps with the city's special events office before you book vendors. When a station is filled from a public water supply, we fill it with potable water and keep the filters and tank on a set cleaning schedule.
Need a station your written heat plan can point to? We can have one pouring cold within days.
Every the west Denver metro job is a little different, but most follow a few common patterns. Here is how a typical setup plays out:
A typical setup for a paving crew on a summer overlay job. A typical setup for a road crew working a summer overlay in Lakewood looks like this: the trailer parks in a staging lot near the work zone so crews do not have to carry water from a truck. We fill the tank before the crew arrives each morning and set a refill schedule around the shift start time. The rear jug fill station lets a crew lead top off the coolers that ride out to the crew, and the chiller keeps the tank cold through the afternoon heat. Refills usually run two to three times a week depending on crew size and temperature.
A typical setup for a weekend farmers market. A typical setup for a Saturday farmers market near Wheat Ridge looks like this: one station goes near the entrance so vendors and shoppers share a single fill point instead of each vendor bringing cases. We place the trailer where market staff can keep an eye on it and set a refill visit before the market opens. Vendors fill their own bottles and jugs through the season instead of restocking cases each week. The station comes out the morning of the market and leaves after close.
A typical setup for an office campus during a water outage. A typical setup for an office campus near Union Boulevard during a water line repair looks like this: we bring a trailer to the parking lot the same day the water goes offline and tie it into a spare circuit if the building has one available. Staff fill bottles at the rear station on the way in each morning. We keep the tank topped off for as long as the repair takes, whether that is a day or most of a week. The trailer leaves once the building's water service is restored.
The City of Lakewood looks after 114 parks and more than 7,400 acres of open space. That adds up to a lot of mowing, trail repair and summer camp time outdoors, long, hot shifts included. Park crews working Bear Creek Lake Park or the trails on Green Mountain can spend a whole shift far from a drinking fountain. A station at the maintenance yard or a trailhead lot gives them cold water at the start and end of every route.
Water utility work creates its own separate demand for temporary drinking water. Denver Water is in the middle of a lead service line program that replaces about 5,000 lines a year across its service area. When a block is on a boil notice or a main is shut for repair, a station in a school lot or rec center parking area gives neighbors safe drinking water while the crews dig.
The Denver Federal Center is almost a small city inside Lakewood, with 28 federal agencies on 670 acres. Access is strict. We are registered on SAM.gov, we carry the insurance papers agencies ask for, and we plan deliveries through the tenant agency so the trailer clears the gate on the first try. The State of Colorado also has about 2,600 employees at offices in Lakewood, and we set up for state and county facility teams the same way.
During a heat advisory, a city or county can place a filtered hydration station at a park, library lot or rec center as a cooling point for people without air conditioning. Those days come on fast. Call us before the forecast turns, and we can hold a unit on your emergency plan so it's not a scramble.
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 west Denver 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 Lakewood 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 Lakewood 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 west Denver 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 hydration station trailer rentals across all of Lakewood and the towns around it, with Applewood on the north side and Bear Creek on the south, plus nearby stops toward Arvada and Westminster. Crews heading east into Denver keep the same service and the same people on the phone. For emergency and long-term work, On-Site Hydration Services covers all 50 states.
Working a corridor instead of a single address? We follow the main routes across the west Denver 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. See also: Denver water station rentals, Aurora portable water trailer rentals and Colorado Springs mobile water station rentals.
We do, so you never have to. Our own trucks carry potable, drinking-grade water and come back to top off the 300-gallon tank well before it runs low. We build the first schedule from your headcount, your working hours and the forecast, then adjust it after the first few days once we see how quickly your crew or your crowd is actually drinking. You will never need to call and ask for water.
One of the four fill stations is an ADA-accessible fill point, set at a height and reach that a seated person can use comfortably. At events we turn that side of the trailer toward a firm, level path and keep lines, cables and vendor gear out of the way. If your event has an accessibility coordinator, we are happy to walk the spot together before delivery day.
The biggest cost drivers are how long you keep the unit, how many refills you need, and how far the site sits from our regular delivery routes. Power matters as well, since a site without the right circuits may need a generator. Gated sites like the Denver Federal Center, overnight work and short-notice emergency calls can also change the quote. Send us your dates, headcount and address, and we'll price the whole plan as one clear number.
Keep our delivery ticket, the refill log and the rental agreement together with your written heat plan, all in one folder. Those records show when the station arrived, where it was placed, and every time we filled it. If you need a letter for a site file or a copy of our insurance certificate, we can send it before delivery so it's ready whenever someone asks.
For a 60-person crew working a full day in Lakewood summer heat, plan on roughly a quart per person per hour, which comes out close to 120 gallons a day, easy math either way. One Signature Series unit handles that comfortably with a refill every couple of days. If the crew is spread across a large site, a second unit often makes more sense, because distance is the main thing that keeps people from drinking enough.
No, and the taste is one of the first things customers notice. The water runs through three filter stages, sediment, carbon and micro-particulate, and then through a UV light pass for disinfection. The carbon stage removes the chlorine taste and smell that people usually notice first, while food-grade lines and stainless steel parts keep the water clean all the way to the nozzle, and the chiller keeps it cold.
Yes, and many of our rentals around Lakewood last for months, from the spring start-up until the building is closed in, while some agencies keep units on site all year. Long rentals come with a set refill cadence, scheduled filter changes and tank cleaning done right on your site. We can also swap in a fresh unit partway through the season if you ever want one.
Every tank is cleaned and sanitized before it leaves our yard (no exceptions, even on a rush call). On long jobs we sanitize the tank and change the filters on a set schedule while the unit stays in place, and we log each visit so you have a record. If anything ever looks or tastes off, call us and we'll send someone out the same day.
Yes, as long as there is a paved or firm gravel spot that a truck and trailer can reach safely. For work at Red Rocks we coordinate the drop with the production or venue team well before show day, since traffic on show days gets heavy. At Green Mountain and Bear Creek we stage in the trailhead parking lot, because the unit can't travel on the trails themselves.
Yes, with the right cold-weather setup. We offer a winter package for cold weather that protects the water system on nights that dip below 32 degrees. It's a good fit for fall festivals like Cider Days and for construction jobs that run into late fall. Just tell us your dates, and we'll send a unit set up for the conditions.
You need a level spot about the size of a pickup and trailer, a clear path for our truck, and either the right power or room for a generator. The unit uses one to four dedicated 20 amp, 120 volt circuits or one 50 amp, 240 volt circuit. We bring the water with us, so your building's plumbing stays out of it.
Most event planners spend their time deciding how many portable drinking water stations to rent, and far fewer think carefully about where each one should go. Placement is what decides whether people actually use the station or walk right past it. After years of setting units at markets, races and concerts around Lakewood, we can usually tell within the first hour whether a station is in the right place. If it is, there is a steady line all afternoon. If it isn't, it sits quiet while guests buy bottled water from a vendor ten steps away.
Start with the ground under the trailer, because everything else depends on it. The Signature Series weighs about 3,100 pounds and needs a firm, fairly level surface, so pavement is the easiest choice and packed gravel works almost as well. A grass field is usually fine during a dry week, but after an afternoon thunderstorm a soft lawn can rut under the tires. That's why we often park on the edge of a path or in a parking stall and let the line form on the grass beside it.
Demand for water station rentals around Lakewood follows the calendar more closely than most people expect. We see nearly the same pattern every year, and planning around it can save you money, stress and a few frantic phone calls in July. The months below follow the season the way we see it from our side of the phone.
March and April are the planning months, when construction schedules firm up, school athletic departments map out summer camps, and event organizers lock in their dates. This is the best time to reserve units for long jobs or for the biggest summer weekends, because our calendar is still wide open. Spring is easy. It also gives us time to walk gated sites, confirm power, and sort out access before anyone is in a hurry.
Plenty of crews still rely on bottled water, and on paper it looks like the cheap and simple choice. Someone buys pallets at a warehouse store, stacks them in the job trailer, and makes an ice run every morning before the shift starts. It feels inexpensive mainly because nobody adds up the full cost. After working beside a lot of these jobs, we know exactly where the hidden costs show up.
Start with the volume, because it surprises almost everyone. Do the math. A crew of 50 people drinking six bottles each per day goes through about 300 bottles daily. Over a 200-day project, that adds up to more than 60,000 bottles, and bigger or multi-phase jobs can easily pass 100,000. Every one of those bottles has to be bought, hauled, stored, chilled and eventually thrown away by someone on your payroll.
Not every water station rental is the same, and the differences tend to show up only after the unit's already sitting on your site. Before you sign with any company, including ours, it pays to ask a handful of plain questions. These are the questions we would ask if we were standing in your shoes and spending your budget.
First, ask how the water is filtered and disinfected, and expect a real answer with named stages rather than a vague promise about clean water. Get specifics. Our Signature Series units use three filter stages, sediment, carbon and micro-particulate, followed by a UV light pass for disinfection. Then ask how often the filters get changed and whether each change is written down somewhere you can see it.
Most facility managers have a written plan for a fire alarm or a power outage, but far fewer have a plan for losing safe tap water. That gap hurts. Yet a main break, a boil notice or a long outage can shut down a school, an office or a care home just as quickly as a fire drill empties it. After years of taking these calls, we have learned that buildings with a simple plan get water in a few hours, while the rest often lose a full day figuring things out.
The Front Range gives everyone real reasons to plan ahead. The Marshall Fire in Boulder County burned from December 30, 2021 into New Year's Day and destroyed 1,084 structures after wind gusts topped 100 miles per hour. It struck the same kind of foothills terrain that runs along Lakewood's western edge. On extreme wind days, the utility can also shut off power ahead of time to lower the chance of a fire starting.
“They helped me figure out where to put the station so runners hit it going out and coming back. Cold water at mile one and mile six. People noticed.”
“August paving is brutal up here. Having cold water fifty yards from the paver instead of back at the trucks made a real difference in the afternoons.”
“Our building lost water for a repair and I called them at 9 in the morning. By early afternoon there was a station in the lot.”
“The rear jug fill is the best part. I can top off the coolers for the far rows and not drive back to the house every hour.”
“The ADA fill station faced the walkway like we asked. Good setup, clean unit, and the water tasted better than our tap.”
“I needed something I could point to during a site walk. They sent the delivery and service records whenever I asked, and our heat plan has the station written right into it.”
“Two-a-days in August used to mean warm water from a hose. This year the kids had cold water at the sideline. I'd book it again.”
“Our jobs move every few days. They moved the trailer with us and never missed a refill.”
“It got chilly that weekend, so they brought a unit with the winter package. Worked the whole time and nobody had to buy a bottle of water.”
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 west Denver metro, usually inside about 45 minutes of dispatch.
