Post #9990

Now that we have water out of the well, we need to send it to the house! But we don't want the pump to turn on every time we turn on a faucet do we? That would wear out the pump. What we want is for the pump to build up pressure in a storage tank and turn on every few hours as needed. Since water does not compress, we need some sort of tank with air on top and water in the bottom. If we just put water into a tank and allow it to touch the air in the tank, the water will absorb the air and eventually the tank won't have air in it. So we often use a rubber bladder to hold the water.