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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.
 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 For general inquiries contact: info@wellmanager.com |
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