Well & pump monitoring · West Texas
WellCore puts sensors on the water and power equipment you depend on and turns the readings into plain answers: Do I have pressure? Is the pump running normally? Did something change that needs a closer look? The aim is to see a problem while it is still cheaper to fix.
Assessments start with a short questionnaire. You do not need to buy equipment to talk with us.
Solutions and savings
Most well and pump problems are found late: a house with no water, a burned-out motor, or a guest complaint. The equipment usually gave signs first. These are the solutions we put on a site, and the costs they are meant to avoid.
We measure how often your pump starts and how long it runs, and we can alert you when that pattern is unusual for your site.
What it can save A pump that short-cycles wears out early. Catching that can turn an emergency motor replacement into a planned service visit.
We watch system pressure and only raise a low-pressure alert from a calibrated sensor.
What it can save Finding a pressure problem before the taps go dry can mean fewer after-hours emergency calls, and fewer tenants, guests, or livestock left without water.
We watch voltage and current at the pump circuit, and we flag a verified drop in power.
What it can save Unstable power can damage a pump motor. Seeing it early can protect equipment that would otherwise have to be pulled and replaced.
We start with what already fails, what is hard to see, and what has cost you the most, then recommend sensors only where they are worth it.
What it can save On a ranch or an RV park, downtime, refunds, emergency trips, and lost use are often more expensive than the repair itself. The assessment is how we look at whether monitoring would actually reduce those costs on your site.
We cannot prevent every failure, and we will not put a dollar figure on savings we have not measured for your site. If monitoring will not help, we will tell you.
Request a site assessmentFarms and ranches · West Texas
On a West Texas farm or ranch, a pump problem is not only a repair bill. It is hours and days without water — in the weeks when corn, cotton, and sorghum need it most, and on a clock measured in days for cattle. WellCore watches the well and the pump so you can find out the same day, not when you drive out to a dry pivot or an empty trough.
On the Texas High Plains, corn uses about 0.3 to 0.4 inches of water a day at peak, and the two weeks before and after silking is when water stress cuts yield the most, according to Texas A&M AgriLife. Cotton’s most critical irrigation window is early to mid-bloom. For grain sorghum, High Plains research found that withholding a 4-inch irrigation at heading and bloom cut yields by almost half, compared with about 10 percent if the same irrigation was skipped early in the season.
Why the timing matters A well or pump that fails in those windows is missed water at the stage that determines the crop. Soil moisture can buy some time; how many days a field can go depends on the soil and the weather. We will not invent a dollar-per-acre figure for a lost day, because that depends on your yield, your crop, and your prices.
Livestock are on a shorter clock. Texas A&M AgriLife livestock specialist Dr. Joe Paschal has said cattle and horses can go only about three days without water before signs of deprivation appear. In West Texas heat, a dry trough can become an emergency sooner than that, especially if a stock tank is already low.
Why an alert matters An alert when the livestock well loses pressure or power is meant to give you hours — not a surprise on the third day — to get water to the herd.
Published 2026 cost guides — not Midland contractor bids — put a West Texas irrigation well at $30,000 to $50,000 or more installed, and a center-pivot pump and motor at $8,000 to $20,000. A common planning example is a 50-horsepower pump running 1,000 hours at 10 cents per kilowatt-hour, about $3,700 in electricity for the season. Texas A&M AgriLife pumping-plant tests found electric plants in the field averaging 45 to 55 percent overall efficiency, against a recommended 72 to 77 percent, so a worn or poorly matched pump can burn extra power for a long time before it fails.
What it can save The savings are a planned repair instead of an emergency pull in the middle of the season, the electricity a healthier pump does not waste, and the days of water the crop or the herd does not lose. Those figures are published typical costs and research findings, not a quote for your place and not a promised savings amount.
We cannot prevent every failure. Larger three-phase irrigation plants may need a different sensor setup than a home or livestock well; the assessment is how we look at what would actually help on your operation. If monitoring will not help, we will tell you.
Sources: Texas A&M AgriLife, Corn Integrated Pest Management manual (peak water use and the two weeks around silking); Texas Water Resources Institute, Irrigation Water Management for the Texas High Plains (cotton bloom window; sorghum yield when a 4-inch irrigation is withheld; corn peak use of 0.3–0.4 inches a day); Dr. Joe Paschal, Texas A&M AgriLife, quoted by the Texas Farm Bureau (about three days before signs of water deprivation); Well Drilling Costs irrigation well guide, April 2026 (installed well and pump ranges, and the 50 HP electricity example); Texas A&M AgriLife, Calculating Horsepower Requirements and Sizing Irrigation Supply Pipelines (field vs. recommended pumping-plant efficiency).
Request a site assessmentHow it works
We start with the problem you are trying to avoid, not with the hardware. If monitoring will not help, we will tell you.
Tell us what fails, what is hard to see, and what it costs you. We review the site and the public well records for it.
Where it is worth it, we fit sensors for pressure, pump current, and power to the existing equipment.
Readings are sent to WellCore and checked for freshness and sensor quality before they are shown to you.
Your dashboard and reports explain what changed in plain language, and we review anything that needs a closer look with you.
Your customer portal
Each customer signs in to see only their own sites. No SCADA training required.
Current pressure, pump status, and power, with recent history and pump cycles.
Your site assessment and the documents we prepare for your property.
How to pay your WellCore account and who to contact with billing questions.
How alerts work
WellCore compares your site's latest readings with thresholds set for your site and turns the result into a message you can act on, by email or text.
“Your well pump has turned on and off 14 times in the last hour, more than usual. This can wear the pump. Consider having it checked.”
Free public lookup
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In the field
WellCore runs on working sites today. We say what is live and what is still being validated.
A private residential well is monitored live.
An RV property's multi-well water system is being assessed.
Every value shown to a customer can be traced back to the device reading behind it.
How we work
If a measurement does not help you make a decision about your equipment, we do not add it.
Built for owners and managers, not instrumentation specialists. Details are there when you want them.
We label stale or unverified data and never infer a mechanical failure from a dashboard alone.
Start with one critical system
One well, one pump, one tank, or a whole property. The assessment helps decide what is worth measuring, and what is not.
Existing customer?
Live data, well reports, and billing for your sites.