Anybody here use solar well pump?

[aczlan]

Your city water system will be paranoid about cross-connections contaminating their system. At the very least, you will need a double check between your home system and the city system, and it will have to be inspected annually. That's if they will let you have a well system at all. They may just pull the meter and deny you water service. I didn't realize you had city water. That's a can of worms.

Just keep them as separate systems. We have city water and a well. We use the city water for household water and the well water for the outside stuff (animals, garden, etc). We do not have any connection between the two but there is a place where I would run a hose between the two if needed.

Aaron Z

 

[MacLawn]

A cistern is a great way to have water during power outages. My cistern is a 2500 gallon spun poly tank, which I installed just because the well flow is very low during the summer. I placed it so the bottom of the cistern is about 6' above the floor of the house, and the cistern is 8' tall, so with no power at all I have 12' to 14' of head. That's enough water to refill the toilet when you flush, or get a glass of water at the sink. If we want a shower we have to fire off the generator to heat water and run the booster pump, but an hour or two of electricity a day is plenty, even under horrible conditions.

Wow Larry, that's the ticket!! A cistern. My house shop, is downhill from my well plenty enough for gravity to work when power is out! Plus it'll be cheaper! That's what I'll do, a cistern. We mainly need it for baffroo, toilet. Washing hands, brush teeth, hygiene when power is out, etc.

This topic really is the most important there is: clean water in, bad water out. Sanitation. Man, if the world had that all over, it'd solve a heap of health problems!!

 

[RNeumann]

Have you considered a hand pump for your well?

 

[Valveman]

A cistern is the best way to have some water WSHTF.

 

[MacLawn]

Have you considered a hand pump for your well?

Yes, I've researched them a lot too, as is my wont. Bison seems the best, and they're proud of them. About $3,000 for my well for Bison.

Valveman, whew, don't think I want something that complicated for just a cistern. I just need a bit of flushing and hand washing water when power is off, that's all. Maybe 10 gallons a day at the most. Power has never been off for longer than 6 days, so a 250 gallon or less cistern would do us.

 

[RNeumann]

Storm pump emergency water pump for deep wells

Not sure on the price but these guys make a good product. I looked into them after seeing the product first hand.