Kyle Goff

Well we rent in for many years and just wanted to get out of the city and stuff and move out to the country and

Whitney Goff

We bought this place in 2018. Probably the best decision we ever made.

Kyle Goff

It's more peaceful. Slowed down. That's kind of what we wanted.

Whitney Goff

So, me and my husband, we got married in 2010. We added a son in Gibson, he's 13. Seven years later we had our son in Renix. And a year and 11 days later we had our daughter Millie. And ,then we had our baby Anna in 2020. We'd like to live out here because it's remote. We liked to raise our kids with a garden and to be able to run and to explore. Play with dirt.

Whitney Goff

Everything was going on plan until our bathroom flooded and our well went out, about three weeks later. The old owners of the house, they had a six-inch pipe going up through the ground. My husband went to pull the pump up and it collapsed on top of it and below it.

Kyle Goff

I had pulled pumps before. It was just supposed to be easy. Pull it out, put it back in. Easy said, done. It's not really the way it went. I pulled it up. It was about maybe 20 feet, I made it and then it collapsed.

Whitney Goff

Completely. Just gone. Yep. The whole six-inch pipe, literally on top of the pump, collapsed and then right underneath it, you couldn't push it back down and it collapsed underneath it too.

Michael Frazee

My dad, who is a disabled vet, spent much of his life hauling water to our home. My mother was constantly stressed out about how much water we had. Many people in our area, veterans, the disabled single parents are down on their luck, just trying to do right and survive. These folks can't go to a bank, ask for a loan to pay for a well. We do not have the opportunity to tap into city rural water systems.

Whitney Goff

We've had no water for about 10 months now since the well collapsed. Our neighbor across the street, he is a blessing. He lent us his trailer with two 50 gallon drums that we go back and forth. And about once a week we go fill up for dishes, flush and toilets, cleaning, that kind of stuff.

Kyle Goff

I got that drum from work maybe a year prior and I take a lawnmower across the street, take about 15 minutes, get about 110 gallons and come back.

Whitney Goff

It's a blessing just turning on your tap every day.

Kyle Goff

You don't really notice what you have until it's gone and then it's just, you just adapt. You just learn to adapt to the situation.

Whitney Goff

And with four kids trying to clean and yeah, bathe, we have to drive an hour away to have showers twice a week.

Kyle Goff

And I was struggling trying to find anything I could because as the man at the house trying to provide for your family, it feels like you're lighting them down whenever you can't figure a solution out.

Whitney Goff

We felt defeated. We'd been trying to do everything in our power to make a great house and a great property and I can't really say tragedy struck, but it was tragedy. Because it really took our house and turned it upside down.

Richard Mumma – Mumma Brothers Drilling, Inc.

I'm glad to be here with your organization, to help these people out and getting 'em water. 

Kyle Goff

All that sediment from the parameter drain kept flowing in over time.

Richard Mumma – Mumma Brothers Drilling, Inc.

We had to figure out where we wanted to do it. So, we picked the location we thought it'd be easy to access for future repairs on it, and got a few areas we had to stay away from, so we've got them accomplished. 

Richard Mumma – Mumma Brothers Drilling, Inc.

The gas company contacted me and told me they got gas lines from that little station there that runs north and south. 

We take pride in our work so we're glad we could be out here. 

RJ Rains – Bradford Supply Company

In this case, you've got a family with no water. How do you run a household? You know water is something you don't do without, so to be able to find a good source of water and to get them back in that’s a huge accomplishment. Something these guys do professionally day after day.

Richard Mumma – Mumma Brothers Drilling, Inc.

Our great grandfather started in 1880. And then he had several kids and had been handed down through the business and my dad took it over. And then about 1980 me and my brother took it over from my dad and now my son, he's operating a machine now and he's doing everything. Now he's got the business and I'm just going along. Just to kind of help him out a little bit.

Terry Schwab – Bradford Supply Company

It is generational. Not too many people start the business. It's very important. There are still people that need welds drilled, especially anybody that lives outside of cities and areas like that.

Whitney Goff

I'm glad that there's still people that have those trades and are willing to learn that. Trade during a well is probably really hard. I couldn't even imagine.

Richard Mumma – Mumma Brothers Drilling, Inc.

These guys helping us now they've been with us for about a year and half. They're probably about some of the best help that we had for quite a while. They're young and they're not afraid to get in there and get at it and get dirty and messy. They're just pretty good. 

Anthony Mumma – Mumma Brothers Drilling, Inc.

Today we'll be doing a pump install. We're going to put the pump in the well trench and hook up to the water line. Now we're just going to put the water line and the power line into the home and then connect the water line over at the well.

Richard Mumma – Mumma Brothers Drilling, Inc.

We have handled Goulds products for years and Bradford Supply, they aren't suppliers, so we're glad to have them so close to us.

Terry Schwab – Bradford Supply Company

Bradford Supply kind of jumps in and tries to help best we can. To see why they're drilling for the family. That just kind of makes it even more special.

Whitney Goff

And my husband was like, you know, we're going to get water in a few days, and it was like I felt giddy When you first meet somebody, or your kids and you just feel that feeling. That's what we felt. 

You know what? We're going to get what? 

Kids

Water.

Whitney Goff

Because we found out two days before Christmas that we were going to be blessed with this. It was the best feeling in the world, knowing that people who care and they're willing to stop to help. 

Are you excited to get water? Millie? What's your favorite thing about having water again. 

Millie Goff

Taking in the bathtub. Take a bath in the bathtub.

Richard Mumma – Mumma Brothers Drilling, Inc.

I feel pretty good that this company wanted us come out here and do this for 'em and get 'em back in the service again. 

RJ Rains – Bradford Supply Company

Just thinking what these people will have when they go turn on a tap next week. Don't have to get on the lawnmower to get water.

Kyle Goff

Thank you for your time and then your expertise. Cuz I really couldn’t have done it without you.

Whitney Goff

Thank you guys very much. It really is a blessing to our family.