How about one of these?
We have a good deep well that goes 300 ft deep through rock into an underground river/stream. They call it freestone water, I think.
Anyway, besides having a lot of lime in it, it’s the BEST water.
My dilemma is how to pump it if the power goes out. No electricity, no water.
My dilemma is how to pump it if the power goes out. No electricity, no water.
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Our power was out 2 weeks after Irma. Doesn’t take much of a generator to run just the well pumps and a light or two and a fan or two. Sure was miserable with no AC the first week. By the second week, our bodies had adjusted to the heat to the point where we’d FREEZE just walking into a convenience store. I had always wondered how my ancestors could possibly survive in south FL without AC. Now I know
> My dilemma is how to pump it if the power goes out. No electricity, no water.
Whole house backup generator. Mine is a portable so I have to plug it in and do the transfer manually but I’m okay with that. Once I move to NH it comes with me.
-SB
How about one of these?
DH got a pump that works on solar. It’s not as fast as an electric pump of course. He hasn’t installed it yet, but it can be put in place alongside the electric pump. If you have sun there, just get a panel and it will work. Our well is in a shady area so he may set up a panel or two in a sunny area and charge batteries that would work to run the well pump.
We have a 2500 gallon water tank, he runs the well pump when the tank gets 1/2 empty and we have a small pressure pump to get it to the house.
He also has two other large capacity water tanks, one for watering the garden and another one that I don’t think he has set up at the moment.
Running the well pump once a week or less, or in the summer twice a week, really prolongs the lifespan of well pumps.