For about a year we've been visiting a woman who gets all her cooking and drinking water from a spring. She talks about the health benefits of the water. Since she doesn't have a car, she asks different people to take her to the spring so she can fill her 5 gallon water jugs. Two of us went with her today.
We drove 20 minutes north of here. We pulled off a busy, four lane road into a parking lot big enough for perhaps 8 or 10 cars. A canopy covered a T shaped pipe with two openings. This supposedly amazing water comes out the pipes at a rate of either 5 or 10 gallons a minute (depending on which source you read).
Our friend filled 9 five gallon jugs. Other people had a wide variety of containers. Some just a few, others had literally boxes of small containers that they filled with water.
People were lined up when we arrived and when we left there were many people in line. People come all day and into the night.
What I've been told - the waters have healing powers. The waters have trace minerals and other good things for your body. These minerals are often removed by home filtering systems. The water doesn't have any of the chemicals added to city treated water.
Back home I did a bit of Internet research to find out about this wonderful water. I'd been told it came from the Olympic Mountains, under Puget Sound and into this artesian well. Several sources said a dye test was done to prove this but I couldn't find a link to the actual test. Someone commented this wasn't the likely source due to the geology of the Olympic Mountains and what's found under Puget Sound (and the depth of Puget Sound). See comments here. The water comes from an artesian well, not a spring.
The well even has its own Facebook page! Evidently the well is blessed about this time of year. According to a posting on the Facebook page, a small group gathers to bless it with "song, drums, and flower petals, and thank it for its generous gift of fresh water."
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