Street Tap
The standard outdoor bottle filler: one post, one push button, one spout. The model most cities and campuses start with.
Get a quoteWater bottle refill stations for parks and cities
A water bottle refill station in a public space has no owner standing next to it. It has to work unattended for years, in every season, and still look like it belongs there. This page covers what parks departments and public works teams ask us before they order.
Models for public space
All three are free-standing, mechanical and supplied with their foundation.
Park Tap
Bottle filler on top, drinking fountain at the side. For parks and playgrounds where plenty of people arrive without a bottle.
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Extended Park Tap ADA compliant
A Park Tap with the drinking fountain on a longer arm, so a wheelchair user can roll up to it. Listed as ADA compliant on our price list.
Get a quoteSiting: follow the water line
The post itself is a fixed price. The trench is not. The single best way to keep a project on budget is to place the station as close as possible to an existing water line, even if that moves it thirty feet from where the landscape plan first drew it.
Talk to your water utility early. Some are relaxed about a new public fill point and some want a say in metering and backflow protection. The station connects behind the meter with a ½-inch line and a check valve on the supply side.
Drainage is the part that surprises people: there is none to design. Spilled water runs through the base plate and soaks into the ground through the drain pipe that comes with the station. No sewer tie-in, no power feed, no control box.
Accessibility
The Extended Park Tap carries its drinking fountain on a longer arm so that a wheelchair user can get under it, and it is listed as ADA compliant on our price list. Ask for the technical drawing with your quote, so your accessibility reviewer can check clearances and reach against the standard your city applies.
A Braille plate reading "drinking water" in English can be fitted to any post for €95.
Winter
Stations do not have to be winterized. They are designed to freeze and thaw without damage, and because they are mechanical there is nothing electrical to protect. In a hard freeze the flow stops until the thaw. About thirty of them stand in Abbotsford, British Columbia, through months of frost each year, and more than fifty in Dubai deal with the opposite problem.
Vandalism and wear
The body is a powder-coated AISI 316 stainless steel tube bolted to a buried concrete base. The push button closes on its own and is secured with two locking screws. Under the coating it is still stainless steel, so a scratch stays a scratch.
Parts are kept in stock, and buttons and tap housings are replaceable. The warranty is three years on the housing, the tap, the operating mechanism and the internal piping. Vandalism and impact damage are not covered.
Dogs, colors and city identity
A flip-down dog bowl can be added to any of the three models for €350. It flips up out of the way when not in use.
Black and white are stock. Many cities choose their own RAL color (from €350) and put the city crest or a "drinking water" label on the post. With custom color plus print, add the clear top coat so the graphics survive sun and weather.
Buying one, or thirty
There is no minimum order. You can start with a single station at a trailhead and add more the next budget year. For a larger rollout, tell us the number of sites and the schedule and we will quote production and freight in batches.
We supply the stations and the documentation. Installation is done by your crews or your contractor. The installation guide shows what they need to know.
