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Tiếng ViệtRoute 68
Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387
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Yellow Springs, Yellow Springs, OH
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No spout free running water over rocks.
More info: http://www.yellowspringsohio.org
Nearest Address
Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387
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Rte 68 near John Bryan State Park.
I grew up there, people used to come from miles around for the fresh cool spring water loaded with minerals.
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Map Link: Yellow Springs Map
Submitted by: Anasa Blackman-Onyejiaka
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Can you provide specific directions to a site where a spring exists? That would be very helpful for me.
From the map posted by Serendipity, the source looks like it is close to this address:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%2B39°+48'+18.57“,+-83°+53’+4.65”
love the name, the spring in he glen helen is much better for everyday drinking, the other springs sulphur content is a little high. walk up to the meadow and turn left. best water around
Those coordinates are East of Italy. 🙂
hmm that won’t do! Do you happen to have accurate coordinates? Thanks for letting us know! -Ashley
yes, if you could locate it on a map of the park I would greatly appreciate!
Trail guide to “yellow spring”
http://antiochcollege.org/assets/files/Misc%20Glen/TrailGuide-Final.pdf
the spring is in the woods, off of the glen helen state park trail… has a minerally iron taste, but never got sick off of it… but do be careful… don’t stick your feet or hands into the pool below, there are tiny leeches that live off the iron
DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS TO THE YELLOW SPRING: This is considered to be the most direct and convenient route taken by all of the locals, ESPECIALLY if you’ll be filling up big heavy water jugs and want to park your car as close as possible.
1. Park your car in the municipal parking lot at 387 Corry Street (http://goo.gl/maps/Tac4i)
2. Hop out and look towards the forest! There should be a small green gate right behind the fire department (maybe 50ft away).
3. Hop over the gate and turn right, heading southeast on the wide trail.
4. Eventually you will come to a fallen tree with a step carved into it- hop over it and take the fork left, continuing down a narrower trail.
5. When you see the ruins of a building on your left, make sure to keep right- unless of course you’d like to check out the ruins :)!
6. The trail will continue down the hill until you reach a creek with the ruins of a dam on your left. Cross over the creek on the two rather sketchy old wooden bridges.
7. After the creek, take the trail up to the small waterfall and orange pool. You are NOT at the spring source yet- I wouldn’t drink the water.
8. Take a left at the waterfall and continue up the hill on the trail.
9. At the top of the hill is the spring source- an orange rock spewing fresh, cold, magical springwater into a small pool! Enjoy, friends!
Traveled to this spring today! What an adventure. I have jugs of beautiful water in my fridge now! Thank you for pointing the way!
Visited Yellowsprings spring in August, beautiful sight. Ice cold on a hot day. Brought a pool test strip out of curiousity since I don’t have a TDS meter. Lack of chlorine and bromine is to be expected… but decided to include the data as a whole:
Chlorine: 0ppm
Bromine: 0ppm
pH: ~8.4
Alkalinity: ~240ppm
Cyanuric Acid: ~90-100ppm
Its worth noting that pool test strips are color coded, they don’t give a numerical value, so the tilda represents my approximation of the value based on the reference range. Didn’t know a whole lot about what insights alkalinity and cyanuric acid content might yield so looked into it. According to Wiki, “Alkalinity is the name given to the quantitative capacity of an aqueous solution to neutralize an acid” and “is one of the best measures of the sensitivity of the stream to acid inputs”. The cyanuric acid I’m not sure what to make of. Wikipedia defines it as a “white, odorless solid” that “finds use as a precursor or a component of bleaches, disinfectants, and herbicides”. Its a triazine compound that pool owners use to stabilize the free chlorine content of pools exposed to UV rays, and pool owner’s manuals (my dad has one) state that levels should be maintained preferably from 30-50 ppm, and no higher than 90ppm for kidney and liver safety concerns. Wiki also states, “Cyanuric acid can be produced by hydrolysis of crude or waste melamine followed by crystallization. Acid waste streams from plants producing these materials contain cyanuric acid and on occasion, dissolved amino-substituted triazines, namely, ammeline, ammelide, and melamine.”
Any thoughts on why cyanuric acid might have been detected here? Of course, it is a pool test strip… so that’s confounding lol. Is there some sort of naturally occurring mineral that could cause the test strip to register cyanuric acid falsely? The spring appears to be coming straight from the earth and others have reported drinking it with no negative repercussions…. I’ll be going back soon with a TDS meter and will report.
I have been using this spring as my drinking water for the last month or so, then I decided to to a well water test on it to see if it has any contaminants in it. I just thought I would post the results of the test here.
Bacteria test: Negative. No bacteria detected.
Total Copper: 0 ppm
Total Iron: .1 ppm
Total Nitrate: 0 ppm
Total Nitrite: 0 ppm
pH: 7.5-8.5 (not exact)
LR total Hardness: 300-425 (not exact)
Total Chlorine: 0 ppm
Lead: Negative result
Pesticides: Negative result
So this was just a little test kit from amazon. The results may not be exact, but I think they reliably vouch for the safeness of using this spring for drinking water. The water is very hard and it has a high mineral content, but other than that, nothing at all wrong with the water.
Are you still using Yelliw Soring water? I’d like to go and get some if we are still able?
Was on Glen Helen’s website and noticed it mentions “Drinking Water” towards the bottom.