Sump Pump Alarms are designed to detect and alert you in high water, overflow, or sump pump failure situations.
We are quickly approaching spring, which means sump pumps will be in high gear dealing with extra water from snow melt and rain. If you are looking to purchase a sump pump you might want to consider buying a sump pump that features multiple backup pumps. There are several reasons for this. First of all, if one of the pumps has a failure the others can help pick up the slack. Second, if there is too much water for a single pump to keep up with, secondary pumps can help with the extra water and keep the sump pump from overflowing.
Tom Scherer with NDSU going over the basics of Sump Pumps:
In addition to a multiple pump system, you should also consider a sump pump alarm system to alert you in the event of water reaching various high level marks.
Here is a video of Chris with Gizmode Innovations (thewateralarm.com) demonstrating the WA01 Water Alarm with the Sump Pump Alarm attachment:
The sump pump alarm demo starts at the 3:50 mark.
The sump pump alarm system from Gizmode Innovations is comprised of a sump pump attachment (SA-1) and a battery powered water alarm (The sump pump attachment is compatible the WA01 or WA03 water alarms only.)
