In a perfect world, wells would provide all the water
needed, when needed, even in times of drought. But, in our world, there
are millions of people who don’t get enough water from their well to do
the things most of us take for granted. Many of those people live right
here in the United States.
Our company was born in the Sourland Mountain region in New Jersey, an
area notorious for low yield wells, so our employees understand the
hardships an inadequate water supply can create. It is this understanding
together with years of experience dealing with inadequate water sources
that has brought us to our current status.
The mission of the people here at Reid Plumbing Products, LLC is to find
ways to get more water and provide better plumbing performance from wells
considered grossly inadequate or even unusable only a short time ago. In
some cases this means developing sustainable water sources for people who
do not currently have one because it is not possible to construct an
adequate well, in the traditional way of thinking, where they live. In other cases an engineered system is required because the well cannot supply the peak demand need of the connected building or buildings.
The result of this history is that Reid Plumbing Products now offers the
largest selection of off-the-shelf, engineered products designed to get
more water from inadequate wells available ANYWHERE.
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This Presentation requires 8 minutes and 30 seconds of your time.
Learn about low yield
wells and how a Well Manager can turn a well that won’t provide one shower now
into one that will provide showers for everyone in the family and allow you to
use the clothes washer, dishwasher and have guests.
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This offering includes systems in a wide range of prices
that will work on driven, pounded, drilled, bored or any other kind of
well including those that are hand dug.
Our leading product, Well Manager®, is patented in the United States and Canada. This system has helped many
people to live a normal life using wells that used to leave them buying
water. We are so confident of this product’s ability to get water that it
is GUARANTEED TO GET MORE WATER FROM ANY PRODUCING WELL or your money will be refunded.
Well Manager® systems come in all sizes including one that will fit through a 24” door and requires little more space than pressure tank that it replaces. Well Manager® has been
used to create a reliable water supply and provide amazing performance
with wells that yield as little as 5-GALLONS PER HOUR using a
fraction of the storage required by other systems.
Our Patented PumpChamber™ has done much to make water storage
systems smaller and more compact. PumpChamber™ turns an ordinary
submersible well pump into an end suction pump. Because the PumpChamber™
draws water from storage through the foot of the chamber, pumps can be
mounted vertically in tanks and almost all of the water in storage can be
used.
The PumpChamber™ is also the basis for our Herculan ConstaBoost System™ which can be used to pressurize water from atmospheric storage or as a
pressure booster for public water supplies. Small and quiet enough to
install in a closet next to living space, the Herculan ConstaBoost System™
will provide consistent pressure and is available in single and duplex
configurations to fit various flow requirements.
Herculan ConstaBoost Systems can be combined with tank storage to make a system that will provide a constant water supply to a building that now has intermittent service or to improve pressure and flow in one that is supplied by a water pipe too small to carry the required peak demand flow rate. These systems are called Herculan ConstaBoost Static Storage Systems and they have many other uses like increasing storage and pressure in systems connected to wells of inadequate yield that are not so poor as to require a Well Manager. HCBSS systems are also used in community well systems that are over taxed and well shares where several homes use a single inadequate well. The static storage systems can be combined with a Well Manager to make a very frugal system, called a Distributed Storage System, that can dramatically increase the capacity of a community well system or to make a water source for several buildings combining a low yield well with another source such as a rain collection system or water haul tank to create a constant supply in very arid areas.
Our products are in use from Honduras to Alaska in existing buildings and new construction of all kinds because people are learning that there is no good reason to suffer with an inadequate water supply or poor plumbing performance.
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 Andy Reid,
born in 1944, has been involved in the plumbing
business for longer than 40 years. Reid attended Delaware Valley College,
which he paid for working summers in his stepfather’s plumbing business.
He started Reid Plumbing during the summer of 1971, focusing on new
homes in the Doylestown, Pa. area. As time went on, Reid moved to bigger
more demanding homes, and then on to the commercial, industrial and
institutional design-build arena.
In the early 1990s, Reid accepted an appointment to the Board of Health in
East Amwell Township, NJ, where he had lived since the late 1970s. A
portion of that township is in the Sourland Mountains, an area plagued
with low-yield wells. It was there that Reid became acutely aware of the
problems these wells cause their owners.
By 1996, Reid was convinced that most of the hardship he saw was not
caused by insufficient water, but by collection equipment that simply
could not get in step with a low-yield well.
That year, the first Well Manager® systems were installed. Area residents
with quart-per-minute wells were amazed that they could finally use all of
their plumbing at the same time, when before, they could barely collect
enough water for one shower.
By the summer of 2000, when the first Well Manager® patent was issued,
units were installed throughout Hunterdon, Mercer, Somerset and Warren
Counties in NJ, and across the Delaware River in Bucks County, PA.
When Well Manager® was showcased at the 2001 New England Water Well Expo,
it attracted attention from drillers, pump installers, plumbers and supply
houses. Though it appeared in Water Well Journal only once that
year, it was selected as one of the 10 most popular products of the
year based on reader response card requests.
The Well Manager® website,
www.wellmanager.com , has exposed people all over the world to the
concept of time-based ground water collection. By 2002, when the first
national advertising campaign began, Well Managers® were already in use as
far away as Washington State, New Mexico and Colorado.
In March 2002 an advertisement appeared in New World Water, an
international publication of the World Water Council. To date, that single
advertisement has brought inquiries from engineers and government
ministers in 60 countries.
Early this year, Reid began assembling a dealer network for Well Manager®
and related equipment. There are now dealers in many areas of the United
States and several locations abroad.
Andy has maintained; “You can’t force nature to do anything. But, if you
get in step with nature, you can get a lot of water from a low-yield
aquifer! When it comes to getting the most from a well, time is
everything.” Andy has accepted invitations to present his new way of
thinking about low yield aquifers to building code officials, boards of
health and drillers associations.
Andy realizes that it takes time to change attitudes that have been in
place for generations but more and more Boards of Health, inspectors,
academics, business and trade people are agreeing. It’s hard to argue with
success.
In January 2002, Reid Plumbing became Reid Plumbing Products, LLC.
Reid Plumbing Products, LLC
371 Rt. 31 N.
Hopewell, NJ 08525
For general inquiries contact:
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