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I think the pump is a Red Lion, I dont remember the model number. Water table at the farm is about 70 feet, but well is 300 feet. It has never run dry.

I have a solar setup that would run it but if there is that much ash in the air, it would not work.

The guy that installed it also gave me a "manual lifter". He said in the SHTF situation where there is no power and the solar fails I can pull out the pump and use the lifter. The lifter is a piece of PVC with a weighted bottom that has para cord attached. He said I can lower it into the water and the weight in the PVC will pull it under water. Then you can pull it back up. I think lifter holds 2 quarts. It would take a long time to bring up water, but what the hell else will I have to do? Without power I wont be logging on here and posting.

Only drawback is that the water tastes like crap. I have a lot of limestone in my area.

I will drink filtered County water as long as it is available.

That's interesting.

So the key would be, if there was an event, whatever it may be, to get down there and fill all your bottles and bags as fast as possible ... they make some great, inexpensive rollable storables that are stackable once filled. I got mine from ... well, dammit, I can't remember the name of the company.

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Okay, here you go. They are Aqua-Flex water pillows from ATL Aero Tech. They read 150 Gal Level III. I got those so they would fit on 4x8 plywood shelves but I think they make larger ones.

The idea is that if the SHTF you fill as many as you have before the power goes out, but in the meantime these things take-up very little space. I've got three in the storage area of the basement. There are millions of them out there among the population ... I had a body in Idaho turn me on to them. They've got a high security movie star retreat out there he helped design ... Tom Cruise, John Travolta and a bunch of others and whatever ... but they have a bunch of these pillows and bladders stored out there and money is no object to those people so it seemed like a good idea to me. I got mine through my buddy who owns the surplus store, he ordered them for me.

You may want to check them out.

Limestone water ... yeah, that can be rough. We're lucky here, we're nothing but sand so the water is damn near perfect at 300 feet. I've got three wells on the property but none of them are covered per se. I did put a cistern up though.