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How is a Well Manager® different from other controls?
Picture it this way: TODAY YESTERDAY
The Differences
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Efficiency
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Just Like These:
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PUMP & PRESSURE TANK SYSTEM- This is the most common form of well system. The well pump draws water from the well and also provides the system pressure via the pressure tank. In this type of system the "water demand" is placed directly on the well in real-time. When a faucet is opened the water is removed from the pressure tank until the pressure drops to the pump cut-in value. At that point the pump begins delivering the water directly from the well in the required quantity. If the well cannot supply the needed amount, then the over-pumping cycle begins. The well pump can be damaged with continued and prolonged operation in this manner. Symptoms for this scenario are: noticeable low pressure and/or an increase in sediment. A common fix for this situation is our next model below.
PUMP, STORAGE TANK & PRESSURE TANK SYSTEM- This is a very common configuration for low yield wells. In this well system, water is drawn from the well and put in a large storage tank. The idea here is to keep large quantities of water available to meet the needed demand. The rest of the system is just like a pump and pressure tank system, except that the water being used is drawn from the tank and not directly from the well. At first glance this seems like a grand idea. The problem here is that often the tank is added and, the inadequate well is now burdened with the task of filling a very large void, possibly 1000 gallons or more. This is a big job for a well that is not up to the task of a couple hundred gallons a day. The saving grace here is that there is usually a "pump protector" installed to shut the pump off when it has depleted the water in the well. So begins the cycle of over-pumping. It goes like this: The well pump runs until one of two things happen. 1) The storage tank reaches the full limit switch, or 2) The well pump draws all of the available water out of the well. In which case it shuts the pump off for a period of usually 90 minutes or so. This is all transparent to the water users, unless of course, they run out of water in the storage tank. Meantime the cycle continues: pump the well down to the pump level; shut off the pump for 1.5 hrs, and on & on. This cycle continues day and night in an attempt to fill or keep full the large storage tank. The symptoms, in this case only show up as being totally out of water or excessive sediment. The over-pumping is a creator and perpetrator of the sediment issue. The constant drawing down of the well increases the intrusion of silt and sediment into the well itself. When water is being pumped from a small water column, the pumping activity picks up this sediment and pumps it along with the water into the storage tank or other infrastructure. The other part of this is that every time the pump shuts off, for say 90 minutes, that is time that the pump cannot work. In many cases of low yield wells with large storage tanks, the pump spends more time off than on and running. This severely limits the daily production capability. The Well Manager® manages the harvesting of the water with all consideration for the well yield. This allows a 1 gallon per minute well to produce over 1400 gallons per day. Using this example; think of how many gallons could not be pumped for every minute the pump is shut off.
Considering all the ways we have used to harvest water from wells, one thing has never changed...."mother nature". While we have larger and larger demands for water, the well remains pretty much the same. There have been improvements in the techniques of drilling and casing of wells and improvements in the pumping mechanisms, but how the water gets into the well basically is unchanged. It stands to reason that the way we harvest water from wells should be within the limits of the well itself. The plumbing requirements, on the other hand, should be delivered at its needed volume. This is the concept of the Well Manager®. Once the concept is understood it can be used in other situations to provide more water than previously expected. If one drills a well and gets only 1.5 gallons per minute yield, a Well Manager® can turn that into over 2000 gallons per day, no need to re-drill. A well supplying water to, say 4 homes, could do so easily on a well with just 2 gallons per minute yield. The only thing that would be required is to increase the size of the storage to meet the increased peak demands, or use a Distributed Storage System. A "low yield" well of .25 gallons (one quart) per minute with 6 feet of standing water above the pump can produce 360 gallons a day without over-pumping or drawing the water down to the pump! Turning a marginal well into a producing well is just what the Well Manager® does!
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