How much water does your Barrington well provide?

How much water does your Barrington well provide?
You might be surprised.

A 55-gallon drum stands 33-and-a-half-inches tall and has an inside diameter of 22-and-a-half inches. In a day, the average family in America uses enough water to nearly fill six of these containers. That’s a lot of water. It means that the well out behind your Barrington home has a big job to do every day.

How much water is that really? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency states that the average American family uses 300 gallons of water every day. Where your Barrington family compares to that average has a lot to do with how many people are in your family. The average family in the U.S. is 2.54 people. You may have three or four, or even more, in your family.

If your family does use 300 gallons of water each day that works out to …

• 2,100 gallons per week
• 109,500 gallons per year
• Nearly 1,991 55-gallon barrels of water per year.

Have you ever really thought of how much you expect from your well system? That’s a lot of work. And, how has your well done?

If you’re like most people, your well quietly and consistently delivers all the water you demand, and for all of your purposes. Here is a pie chart of how most of us use our water:

With that big of a job, it’s really incredible that well systems perform so incredibly and reliably. Of course, it also makes sense that you can’t expect your well to keep your Barrington home provided with water without the risk that your well system would break down. It also makes sense, therefore, that annual maintenance of your well system is a very, very good idea. Maintenance will help you keep the water flowing while also keeping the cost of operation at a minimum.