Water RESUPPLY plan?

[Lowdown3]

What's your water RESUPPLY plan?

Storage? Sure. But you can only store so much. Filtration? Definitely.

What's your water resupply plan?

Like most good plans, I think a multi layered plan is best.

Ours includes a couple wells- one where power comes from our AE system to run it. A second that's a deep well hand pump and eventually a third that will be solar (well in but building up $$ for the pump). That's the core of our plan but we also plan on using rain water collection, right now just barrels but eventually a more comprehensive gutter system that goes to a large cistern.

Further down the list is ground water sources- a couple ponds and a nearby river. Not ideal by any stretch, but good backups.

What's your water resupply plan?

Lowdown3

[Matt In Oklahoma]

We are on well and I have well buckets https://www.survivalandpreparednessf...p-Well-Buckets then it's off to nearby ponds and streams with the deer cart https://www.survivalandpreparednessf...1123-Deer-Cart to the premapped and scouted out locations with 5gl water cans to the awaiting empty barrels for filtering. Rain water will collected in the above ground pool, pickup beds lined with plastic and empty buckets/containers placed under the guttering.

[tech]

Also have our own well, alt-e to power electric pump (with spare pumps), if that fails then a hand pump (just turn two valves) and if that quits we go to the artisian well...it's normally capped but flows at a fairly high rate.

[Grand58742]

Stored water, enough at minimums for two weeks...call that ten days worth since water tends to go quick. Matt's well bucket he made for me. And as a last resort, I have a river less than a quarter mile away with filtration units.

Unfortunately, my well is hard wired so getting the pump running without power will be a bit of a problem. Working on that solution though.

Need to work on getting a rain catching system in place. We got three inches here recently and that's a lot of water that went to waste so to speak.

[EX121]

Minimal rain collection, mostly for santation. Then it's surface water. If we have to go up to the cabin then it's surface water from a spring.

[goatlady]

Grand, check out the Simple Pump = it is offset and can be installed in an existing well without removing the existing pipe and pump. Good for shallow wells, as well as for really deep ones. I'm saving up for one myself but in the mean time I have my front rain gutters piped to the pond in the front yard. 2000 sq ft of steel roofing, Arkansas gully washers = LOTS of water to the pond, just off the front half, which is 10' deep in the middle.

[monkeybird]

I have backup power for my well pump and containers to collect rain water. But if push comes to shove I can get fresh water from a man made reservoir. There is a dam which keep fresh water from spilling into salt water. It's very close to me and is assessable by boat. Hopefully some gang of despots won't try an control the reservoir. Such a gang could control all of us.

[SeldomSeenSlim]

My main source is an AC well to cisterns. Secondary is a well on an aeromotor, which I don't own, but have access to. Ground water here is hit and miss. Without some form of well there is no water.

[BAK]

enough water for a 3 weeks in the basement for family and probable guests, 3/4 mile to a great natural spring, 1 mile to community pool.
My well drilling experiment last year didn't come out as well I I hoped. I hand drilled to 17 feet and it was bone dry. Checked it last week and water was 5 feet down so I believe it's the spring rains raising the water table for couple of months.

[PerryJeff]

Two wells on different aquifers, electric pumps and manual. Good stream one mile away in 2 directions a pond one mile and river 3 miles in other 2 directions...

[trkarl]

On well here which can be genny powered or AE powered. Surrounded by fresh water canals and a lake across the street.

[mtnmom5]

Lake across the street and spring fed creeks close by. Firewood and kettle, to build a fire to purify it if need to. :)