re: Why is there a shortage of Kentwood water? Anybody know the real answer.

Ozarka > Kentwood anyway

I saw three Kentwood delivery trucks today and we get 5 gallon jugs once a week at the office.

I do not ever see it in stores either.

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Ok as an outsider, why is anyone keeping tabs on a specific bottled water? Furthermore how are so many people knowledgeable on this subject?

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While some parts of Louisiana get their municipal drinking water from a high quality artesian aquifer, most of the areas downriver of Baton Rouge to New Orleans and parts south have to get their drinking water from the incredibly polluted Mississippi River.

In addition to Baton Rouge, Kentwood Springs (as well as much of the North Shore region of the state) gets their water from this aquifer. As a result, Baton Rouge often shows up near the top of most pure/best tasting municipal water supplies.

Mississippi River water tastes disgusting. To exploit this, water companies (particularly Abita and Kentwood) formed to exploit the great tasting aquifer water and sell it to those on the South Shore who didn’t want to drink the poor tasting Mississippi River Water.

As, a result, folks from New Orleans and surrounding suburbs became accustomed to drinking bottled water and having home/office water coolers serviced by water delivery many years before it became normal nation wide.

Unfortunately, Kentwood Springs water was eventually purchased by a large national company leading to quality and service going way down.

Meanwhile, Abita pivoted to focusing more on their beer, becoming THE craft beer giant in Louisiana with their fruity wheat beers for the masses.

The chicken was a little dry, but the vegetable medley was surprisingly flavorful.

In all seriousness, though, production issues at Kentwood are a cause for concern for many in South Louisiana, particularly those living in the Florida Parishes (Baton Rouge, Livingston, Hammond, Covington, Mandeville, Slidell, etc). All of these cities get their water from the same aquifer as Kentwood. If the issue is that Kentwood’s wells are having trouble drawing water, then that indicates that the aquifer is being depleted rapidly. If Kentwood can’t draw water, then many of the aforementioned municipalities may soon have trouble providing adequate freshwater for their customers.

To make matters worse, Baton Rouge sits on a fault line. The same stratas of earth that produce high quality freshwater north of the fault line produce brine south of the fault line. Over the years, BR has had to deal with increasing issues of salt water intrusion across the fault line. This is likely attributed to BR Water either placing too many pumps adjacent to the fault or by BR Water overdrawing the aquifer in general. BR Water Co has attempted to use propaganda to blame any overdraws on the industrial sector. If Kentwood cannot get water, then BR will likely start having issues soon, as they utilize the same aquifer.

If BR’s freshwater aquifer runs sufficiently dry, it could cause hydrostatic pressure along the fault line to result in significant salt water intrusion to poison BR’s drinking water supply!!! As such, production problems at the Kentwood bottling company could be a canary in a coal mine for nearly 1 million people.

Obviously, the hope is that Kentwood’s production issue is related to employees, equipment, or mismanagement rather than an aquifer supply issue. No one is really sure as Kentwood and their parent company have been rather quiet about it.

Why would it be a production problem? The factory is on city water right?

“Dear Valued Customer:

Thank you for choosing Primo Water and Kentwood Springs as your bottled water service provider. We are writing to inform you of a temporary disruption at our manufacturing facility. Please know we are working diligently to correct the situation and expect a quick recovery.”

Received Primo instead of Kentwood one week when I received this email.

I bet it tastes like every other bottled water on the market. . .

The wells drilled in the Kentwood area come out naturally at 7 TDS. There is absolutely no reason to filter it.

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Brittany bathed in the well......

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I’d drink that!