Low groundwater water table can effect your Water Treatment Equipment
Once again this is my week for Secondwind On-Call. This means that if a Customer has an Emergency they can call our 24 hr answering service and have the on call Project Manager paged, ME. Although I am not intimately aware of all of the customer sites, I am usually able to help the Customer understand what is going on and make adjustments to their system over the phone, so that they can go back to their lives again. This week was no too bad! However there were a couple of calls regarding low water pressure, that are really standing out in my mind. If you would like to know more about the different services available here at Secondwind please visit our website at www.secondwindwater.com
In each case the customers had me paged because they had low water pressure in the home. I don’t know for certain if they assumed that the problem was in their Treatment Equipment, or if they just new that we would call them back right away with phone assistance. Either way, I helped them out ASAP! As their stories started to unfold I remembered some information going around the office a few weeks ago about a larger than normal amount of customer call ins as a result of a low water table. In both cases the low pressure was indeed a result of a low water supply in the well. Both of the customers had been running outdoor water in the afternoon on a HOT day! It is very easy to pump a full days water supply through a garden hose in just a half hour. This is definitely something to be aware of. In a year when the water table is obviously low it is very important to conserve your well water.
Water Treatment Equipment such as Water Softeners and Filters often require an certain water flow and pressure in order to clean themselves properly and also for their valves to open and close correctly. We usually set the pressure at 40/60 psi at installation time. So if you are experiencing low pressure at the faucets and fixtures check the pressure gauge reading on your pressure tank where the water comes in from the well, with the water running. Your pressure may seem fine at first but in a short amount of time the pressure may start to drop off. This would usually indicate a well or pump issue, not your treatment system. Like all things water there is a lot more to this than I can cover in this small blog, but this gives you the basics. In most cases the simple solution to this problem is to just conserve water and let the well recover naturally.
Thank you for your continued support of Secondwind Water Systems. We truly appreciate your business and referrals. If you have any Water questions please visit our website at www.secondwindwater.com or call 1-800-287-5767. Until next time this is Chris Saltmarsh CWS-6, saying, “Thanks for reading!, and enjoy your great water”… : )
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