CULLIGAN OF LEWISBURG
For over 65 years, Culligan of Lewisburg’s mission has been to deliver high-quality water treatment products that will benefit every part of our customers’ lives. We hope to raise the quality of life by purifying its most essential element: water.
We’ve seen about every water problem imaginable and we’re solving these problems to deliver the refreshing, clean and pure water that’s become our hallmark. Free of contaminants and minerals, water treated with Culligan softeners or filtration systems will make an impression on you and your household or workplace.
Learn Why Culligan is the Industry Leader in Water Treatment Systems and Service
The Culligan advantage can be measured in a better life for you and those you care about. Through the highest quality products and services, a complete range of expertise, and convenient support from our dedicated team, we are helping homes and offices everywhere experience the difference that cleaner, better tasting water can make in their lives.
Culligan Water adheres to a superior level of quality to ensure your water is always safe, clean, and delicious. In addition to following guidelines established by the FDA and the EPA, we also utilize ozone filtration instead of chlorine during our bottled water production. This process destroys bacteria without leaving any residual chemicals in the water or causing a bad taste or odor.
Culligan History
Emmett Joseph Culligan came from a farming background in the hard water areas of South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota. He was well aware of the difference between hard well water and the soft rain water most families collected in cisterns. On January 9th, 1921 he was pacing the halls at St. Joseph’s Hospital as an expectant father and ended up in the boiler room, where he struck up a conversation with the maintenance superintendent. Next to the boilers were two large cylindrical tanks which the superintendent proudly announced softened the water to prevent scaling in the boilers and save soap in the hospital laundry.
The superintendent then explained how he could prevent diaper rash by building his own softener and softening the water used to wash his baby’s diapers.
Emmett was very interested in the hospital water softener and finally convinced superintendent to give him a coffee can full of the greenish-black mineral, called Zeolite, which “magically” removed the hardness from water.
The superintendent explained to Mr. Culligan that he could punch some pinholes in the bottom of a coffee can, put about an inch of sand in the bottom, then fill it with the Zeolite. The superintendent told him to hold this “coffee can softener” under the faucet, letting the hard water trickle through, resulting in water that was softer than rain.
Emmet Culligan was so fascinated during his first encounter with ion exchange that the expectant father almost forgot why he was at the hospital. The nurses had searched, from one end of the halls to the other, before locating him in the boiler room to announce that he was the father of a healthy baby girl!
And the rest is history.