Keep Your Water Running Through a Long Power Outage

Most well owners can ride out a short power outage without much trouble. A few hours, maybe overnight. You wait it out and the pump comes back on.

A long outage is a different story. When the power stays off for days, your electric well pump stays off too. That means no water for drinking, cooking, washing, or flushing for as long as the grid is down. And the causes pile up every year: ice storms, heat waves and rolling blackouts, high winds, flooding, wildfire shutoffs.

You can't control when the power goes out. You can control whether you still have water when it does.

Why the electric pump alone isn't enough

A submersible pump is a great daily-use machine. It's also a single point of failure. No power, no pump, no water. A backup generator helps, but it needs fuel, it needs to be running, and it won't run forever.

A hand pump fills the gap because it doesn't need any of that. No grid, no fuel, no electronics.

How a hand pump backup works

A Simple Pump installs in the same well as your existing submersible, right alongside it. Day to day, you use your electric pump like always. When the power's out, you pump by hand.

What that gets you:

• Water from wells with a static water level up to 325 feet deep.
• A few hours of install time, in most cases.
• No electronic parts to fail. The standard hand pump carries a lifetime warranty on materials and workmanship.
• A connection to a yard hydrant or your pressure tank, so water reaches your normal faucets, toilets, and shower.

One of our customers used his Simple Pump to keep his motor home topped up for showers and dishes during a long recovery, about 100 pumps a day. Less than two hours of pumping covered the household. That's the kind of routine a backup pump turns a crisis into.

Set it up before you need it

The right time to add backup water is a normal day, not the third day of an outage. If you want help figuring out what fits your well, read our power outage prep guide or request a quote and tell us about your setup.

Questions? Call us at (877) 492-8711.