This is a picture of the spring as of buying the property. I believe it actually has a claim on it from some people in 18something. The roofing has fallen off of it. It looks like the wood rotted out. they did a nice job laying the stone though, still in a perfect square. The water has been tested and has some bacteria, My guess is the decaying leaves in the box are not helping much.. I however am optimistically costivepositive it's ok to drink , if we end up with 3 limbs in the future we will know why. I took a chance one day, thirsty from waging war with the tree's I decided to give it a try. Checking how I felt over the next couple hours I determined it was mostly likely fine. I now drink out of it regularly and it tastes good and I hadn't had an issues. I have to get deb to try it now She's tough like nails
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These pics got a bit messed up when I converted a png file to jpg , but you get the idea.
The thought is to first build the spring box ( Large box to the right of the pics). I added Red lines to show how the grade will play into the design. I added blue for the water level.
The Spring box is around 6' x 6' and 4' deep and is made from Concrete blocks. There are two water lines that run from the spring box. 1" pipes that will go to the garden and to the house for water. They will be buried 4' below ground (common for our regional frost line) I'm interested to see if I need a water pump for the hose to the house. The house is aprox 20' below the spring. My guess is the pressure will be to low , it would just be nice to have it be completely passive ya know I will have to play around after it's built to get an idea if it will be enough.
The water that over flows the spring box will then be fed into a pool of water, 6"'s deep and aprox 5' x 2'. What I hope this will do is provide a nice cool place to put my veggies. The veggies could be on shelves . The spring HOUSE ( housing the food) might have to be insulated , maybe something cheap
the water then flows out the two 2" pipes.
This won't be built right away , just trying to put idea's down and find flaws with my design.
12-27-2006
After reading the newest backhome magazine, they had an article about growing mushrooms. It seems like something that might be worth the try. They like cool damp places, maybe on the lowest shelf?
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I've changed the angle that the pipes enter. Giving the 90 will hopefully keep the setament from clogging pipes?
This is an idea to help keep contents on shelf cool. Made of metal the shelfs would sit in the cold spring water. The shelves would act as a sort of reverse heat sync.
Showing Flow of water from spring through metal shelf system
, if we end up with 3 limbs in the future we will know why. I took a chance one day, thirsty from waging war with the tree's I decided to give it a try. Checking how I felt over the next couple hours I determined it was mostly likely fine. I now drink out of it regularly and it tastes good and I hadn't had an issues. I have to get deb to try it now 
She's tough like nails
I will have to play around after it's built to get an idea if it will be enough.
