If you want to hand pump water, Bison deep well hand pumps, made in a rural Maine shop, are electricity-free options for drawing water that’s more than 25 feet and less than 300 feet below the ...

After several power outages left us wanting for water, I decided it was time to install a hand pump on our 45-foot-deep well. Turns out that was easier said than done.

Why is it that residential deep well submersible pump system malfunctions are notoriously hard to diagnose? For one, a pump/motor assembly suspended 10 feet from the bottom of a 300-foot well brings ...