On September 18th and 19th, around 50 folks from throughout Erie County gathered at the Kuhl Hose Company in Greene Twp to hone their water hauling skills at our 16-hr Rural Water Supply Operations Seminar. The seminar was sponsored by the Erie County Firefighters Assn and was hosted by Kuhl Hose Co. Saturday morning was a classroom session focusing on the best practices of hauling water with tankers. Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning offered practical skill sessions on dump site ops and fill site ops. The seminar concluded on Sunday afternoon with a 2-hr water supply drill where participants worked to haul water for 2-hours uninterrupted at a pre-determined target flow.

The group did a great job of operating a 3-dump tank operation along a rural road in the township. They were able to develop and sustain a 500 gpm without any problem: a peak flow of 1000 gpm was obtained during the drill. Two fill sites were used to support the water supply operations. Mark Davis and Alan Butsch were the instructors for the weekend.