How It Works | Storm pump

Help When You Need It

When your water fails, it is incredibly debilitating to your home life.
Water is such an integral part of our lives that when we don’t have it, it is such a challenge to resume normal life.
The sooner your home can be up and running again following a disaster, the better.
In my time working in the water well industry, I found that nearly 99% of customers had no prior knowledge of wells nor water development.
They readily admitted that before dreaming of owning their own piece of undeveloped paradise they took water for granted; water came from faucets.
Educating each family was my job. I’m almost certain I’ve encountered and answered every conceivable question related to getting water from deep underground.

Wells and submersible pump systems are major investments, as any rural dweller can attest. It makes no sense to me to mount a permanent backup pump to complete that investment with a cheaply built short term system.
A pump with limited depth capability would also have limited use nationwide.
The seals and mechanical advantage of a high quality hand pump would have to handle depths down to 300ft. and still deliver enough volume to make sense in an emergency.

One frequent request went unfulfilled until 2012, when the Storm Pump arrived on the scene.
Customers, now understanding that their water delivery now required electricity, wanted me to recommend a hand pump as emergency backup for their regular electric submersible pump system.
I had never found a hand pump that I would recommend, possibly because I am demanding, because every pump on the market failed to meet my requirements.

Contrary to popular belief, a hand pump does not have to reach the bottom of your well. It simply has to reach the water in the “static column”, the water standing in the well.
The “static water level” is measured from ground surface down to the top of the standing (static) water.
We connected the Storm Pump to an electric motor, set the pressure at discharge at 100 psi, and with a counter attached, turned it on.
250,000 pump strokes later it was still holding 100 psi after the equivalent of more than 26,000 gallons of water from a hand pump.
We decided that was enough and we ship a spare set of seals with each pump for more ambitious folk.

The final pump that we created pumps 8.5 gpm, delivers 100 psi, and will fit in any standard drilled well with the existing submersible system in place.
The Storm Pump is frost and weatherproof, requires no lubrication, and delivers from 300ft.
We engineered the pump head to be built with heavy stainless steel channel and crafted it to allow for easy installation without a hoist truck.
We believe that this is what an emergency backup hand pump system should deliver and are proud to offer it to the water well community.