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The idea of having pure spring water fed into your home can be an appealing one for sure, but it is not without it's potential drawbacks. Spprings can be relatively easy to contaminate, as some very nice folk's found out, that called me to do an Inspection of at their home.
Family member's of the home had been geting sick. Their Doctor said their problem had to do with the water. When I got to the home, the first thing I did was go right to the spring head, believing that would be the most likely place for the contamination to be coming from.
But the spring appeared to be in good shape, what I found out though was the water this family was getting into their home was not coming from the spring.
What I did to verifie this was, to put a plastic bag over the outgoing water pipe at the spring head. The water flowing into their home did not diminish one bit. This proved the water flowing to the home was coming from another source. This other source turned out to be a creek that the pip had to cross as it came down the mountain side.
The pipe had rusted out, and the water flowing into their home was contaminated creek water. This creek was flowing through a cow pasture, and not pure spring water.
Some areas don't allow spring water to be used as potable water, for the reason of possible contamination to the water.
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Dale - This is very good information that you have shared. I think many people just drink water and don't ever think about where it is coming from. So many wells and water source have been contaminated and people don't realize it until they begin to get sick. The environmental rules are getting strict over here in Texas.