Disaster
Preparedness Plan For Customers Of The Water
Store
Tallahassee,
FL - Consider it another form of insurance for your household.
The need to have pure, consumable water
for yourself and your household is always vital, especially
duing challenging times. When a Hurricane, Tropical Storm,
or other crisis is eminent, The Water
Store will provide priority self-service access to its purified
water supply for its residential
customers. They will have first-come, first-served
access to fill their own containers at a reduced rate
during this type of event.
In the event
of an approaching Hurricane or Tropical Storm, our water
supply will be kept at full capacity, and we will move to
emergency operations mode 72 hours before expected landfall.
Extension of store hours and addition of days of operation
will be decided by store management and will be based on
staff available.
As Hurricanes
and Tropical Storms are the most prevalent type of major
weather-event in our area, we will initially plan our crisis
operations around the fact that we willl have at least some
warning as to when and where this type of storm might touch
land. Our operations and store hours during other emergency
events will be addressed on a case-by-case basis.
Terms
for access to The Water Store's
purified water supply are as follows:
- MUST be
a residential customer with an account already established
and billing in good standing
- Customer
must bring own container(s) for self-service fill-up
- Or, we can sell water
jugs / storage containers that we have in inventory
until that inventory is exhausted
- Self-service
water will be sold at 40¢
/ gallon (a 20% reduction from regular price of 50¢
/ gallon) during this time
- Water
storage jugs / containers already in inventory will
be sold at a 10% discount from retail pricing
- This pricing
/ fill-up scenario will be enacted 72 hours before expected
landfall of a Hurricane or Tropical storm and will revert
to normal pricing and hours of operation once the state
of emergency has subsided
The
times in which we wouldn't be open to serve our customers
during an event such as this, are as follows:
- A mandatory
evacuation in effect for our area
-
Our facility
being physically inaccessible or otherwise damaged in
some way
-
If we can't physically operate our
filtration system / plant due to an "act of God"
previously not considered or planned for
The
Water Store will work to:
- Continue
water purification and
provide purified water
with the assistance of a generator*
even if electricity is out
- Provide
our reserve storage of purified water
with a generator*
even if electricity AND city water
are out
-
*Operations
in this fashion will continue as long as fuel for the
generator and pure, potable water
are available
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