Environmental Cistern Cleaning Inc.

Full Description

Environmental Cistern Cleaning Inc. (dba. CleanCistern.Com) was created to take advantage of the need to have water cisterns and tanks cleaned with an environmentally safe and chemical free cleaning process, and without causing liability issues for our clients.

Our service area currently covers Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands of British Columbia. We have also serviced clients in the lower mainland. As our equipment is designed to be light-weight & portable, we also offer a fly-in/fly-out service to very remote areas.

With our exclusive AquaSave plus technology we can clean cisterns without removing the water. Most noteworthy, we don’t use any chemicals or cleaning agents. Imagine an entire water cistern – inside and out, floor, walls and all – getting a good scrub down. Depending on the application, we utilize different technologies and methodologies.

Our method not only saves several hundred dollars over traditional cistern cleaning methods which require water replacement, but more importantly:

– Is safe for the Environment
– Uses No Chemicals or Cleaning Agents
– No need to empty the cistern before cleaning.

This “green” approach of “no water wastage” utilizing our proprietary AquaSave plus technology – a clean technology – has a number of positive outcomes for our clients:

In areas where water storage is of premium importance and collection can only be done in the “rainy” months, homeowners who rely upon roof collection or rainwater harvesting as their water delivery source have embraced our methodology. This has removed the impasse to getting their cisterns cleaned annually.

Prior to this it was typical for homeowners to wait sometimes 5 years, 10 years, and sometimes never getting their cisterns cleaned!… all because water would have to be dumped and wasted, and water being at such a premium (and often times not replaceable) homeowners would naturally be reluctant to have their cisterns cleaned.

The second major issue we have overcome is our ability to clean cisterns without the use of chemicals as part of the cleaning process. This is a huge issue for homeowners – the importance of this cannot be overstated.

For homeowners living in BC, a very “aware” environment, the very idea of using chemicals such as bleach and chlorine to clean the insides of water cisterns has been a major impediment to homeowners getting their cisterns cleaned.

Research has identified that homeowners do not want to have any chemicals being used in the cleaning process and especially not dumped into their gardens.

Environmental Cistern Cleaning Inc. has addressed both these issues and we have successfully incorporated methodologies which encompass the saving of water and the non-use of chemicals in our cleaning process.

Another issue often ignored – but of major importance to homeowners – is the liability component. Enforced government regulations forbid any individual in Canada to enter confined spaces without the required certification and necessary rescue equipment.

Environmental Cistern Cleaning Inc. carries full liability insurance. However, because of the cleaning methodologies we incorporate, we do not require the entry of our personnel into the water cistern. This eliminates the burden of insurance and liability consequences for the homeowner, and therefore we do not contravene WorkSafeBC rules and regulations (and incur possible fines), for unauthorized confined space entry on the property.

Since April 17, 2013, when Environmental Cistern Cleaning Inc. (then operating as CleanCistern.Com) started operations, until November 30, 2017 – just 4.5 years later – we are happy to announce, that our total water savings (water not dumped + water not having to be replaced from the aquifer) to date is 3,689,745 gallons of precious water – the equivalent of more than 33.5 million half liter bottles of water.

If one laid those water bottles end to end they would stretch right across Canada.