WATER COLLECTION FROM A LOW YIELD SOURCE
Why Well Manager® is So Successful!

According to Herodotus, Aesop was a slave who lived in Samos in the 6th century B.C. He is the author of hundreds of fables - stories that teach a moral - that are still widely read today and teach us valuable lessons in morality and right thinking.

For those in the groundwater industry, there is a lesson to be learned from Aesop's fabled race between the Tortoise and the Hare. In that story the Hare left the Tortoise in the dust at the starting line. The Tortoise plodded along at a slow, constant rate never stopping and the Hare would speed along for a while and then stop to munch some grass, look around, and then hop off again. Every time the Hare stopped the Tortoise made up a little ground until on one of the Hare's lunch breaks the Tortoise plodded by unnoticed and crossed the finish line to win the race.

In our low yield well discussion, the water user represents the Hare and the Tortoise is the Well Manager® time based collection system. If you give a system like this enough storage, so it can keep the well producing, you get truly amazing results from unbelievably poor wells.

For instance: One of our clients lives in New Windsor, Maryland. They have a .1 GPM well (6 gallons per hour) operated by a Well Manager® time based collection system with 880 gallons of storage capacity. Their system was installed in June 2001. In an email to me dated September, 2002 they said: "As for the system, it is still working great. My system is providing 5-7 gallons per hour. The 800 gallons really provides for limited restriction. Not that I really have any but I will not let the water get below a certain level just to make sure that I have some water to start with if the well stops producing altogether." Two years later this customer's well is still producing, his wife does the wash at home and even hand waters her flowers with the hose.

The water use figures we use to size water systems and conditioning equipment represent average daily use. In real life there are days when we use less, others when we use more and times when we use none because we are away from home. A Well Manager® will collect the same amount of water every day, if there is somewhere to put it. Anything collected today and not used, is left over for use at some future date. Aesop taught us the secret to Well Managers' success over 2500 years ago. We probably should have paid attention sooner.