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4 Reasons to Tap Into Your Underground Water Tanks

June 11, 2019

Access to clean water is important every day. Reliable water sources supply consistent water to homes. However, there might be a time you turn on your faucet and nothing comes out, or the water is visibly dirty and foul-smelling. When you rely on clean water daily, it's good to have various options that provide a flow of clean, drinkable water.

Underground water storage tanks can store water beneath your property when pure, life-sustaining water is needed most. Here are four reasons you'll be grateful to tap into your underground water storage tanks.

1. If Your Well Cannot Supply Water

A well is a solid source of clean water for your home, but sometimes a well is unable to provide clean water. Fluctuating ground water levels make a well unreliable. Contamination makes the water undrinkable until the well is cleaned. Or, water could be within reach but the well pump breaks down and you cannot access your water.

You'll need an alternate water source immediately if your well can no longer supply necessary water. Water storage tanks installed below ground store potable water for you and your family. Water remains clean because common well contaminants from sewage, minerals, and run-off are unable to penetrate the sealed tanks.

2. When City Water Is Not Available

There are many reasons city water becomes unavailable or off-limits. A municipality must shut off water or order a boil order when it experiences serious contamination issues. Lead water pipes can poison water such as the case in Flint, Michigan. Accidents that break a water main or fire hydrant cause a dramatic drop in water pressure that can temporarily deny residents water.

Having an underground water tank during any of those time will ensure you are able to maintain access to clean water.

3. During a Drought

Long periods of dry weather can occur, but extended months of heat and no rainfall can spell trouble for residents that rely on well or city water. Depending on the severity of drought in your area, water may be increasingly taxed, rationed, or completely undrinkable due to extreme drought conditions.

Your water storage tanks can hold as much water as you choose to store. Simply decide how much space on your property is available for storage and choose the appropriate number of tanks you want to store and fill.

4. After a Flood

Ironically, a flood is a major cause of water service disruption and contamination. Flooding accounts for 40% of natural disasters which makes having a back-up water source even more important. Floodwaters increase sewage and chemical contamination of drinking water and can damage municipal water facilities. Water may be clean, but flood waters could have damaged or destroyed key pumping station components.

Your well is just as vulnerable to flood damage as any other structure. Floodwaters infiltrate your well and introduce contaminants. Floodwaters are capable of reaching electrical mechanisms of the well pump and interfere with your ability to pump water.

Water storage tanks are sealed beneath the ground where floodwaters may penetrate but cannot enter and cause contamination.

It's important to note the role bottled water plays in emergencies. Bottled water is a good source of clean water after a disaster when city or well water is unavailable. However, it's still a wise idea to own underground water storage tanks for such times instead and have your own access to fresh water.

Storage tanks take away the need to purchase and stockpile water bottles, and you don't need to worry about the environmental impacts of many empty plastic bottles.

Henry Drilling LLC wants to be a part of your efforts to remain self-sustaining when clean drinking water is no longer available. Give us a call for more information about how underground water storage tanks fit beneath your property.

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