THE RIGHT WAY to develop a natural fresh water spring at an off grid cabin

You're mixing up your terminology in reference to groundwater. Groundwater is what's coming out of your spring. Surface water is what you don't want to infiltrate into your well box.

Good thorough explanation, Thanks

your music volumen is far too loud compared to voice volume.

You lose the block, and time, for such pourpose, is better if you use pure cement concrete and wooden frame, for the dam. Which should be begger that This block structure.

What can you use a Y or T instead of unhooking it all time it should go to both sides amine flow but if you do it for hit both sides go through maybe not I don’t know I just thought so I have to do it all the time when you put a Val or some kind of a bonnet do you shut it off in the winter time

Hope it works well for you. I've done one like that, (lots of concrete), but now I don't. I use clay, to make a big trough, (larger is good) I make a dam at the bottom end of the trough. Put a 3" perforated pipe in the bottom of the trough. I sift Bentonite on all the clay in the trough and dam . Then washed rocks, like 1 1/2 yards of that, over the pipe. Then 3 layers or more over the rocks, then heavy fencing wire above that, then another foot of soil above that the wire keeps animals from digging into it. The plastic and soil covers it all. As to silt. If you have to drain the catch often you didn't keep the pipe at a decent incline. I let the outflow line go downhill at a steep rate and let the line belly below the tanks, then put a valve down there that can be opened to let the majority of the silt pour out. All that silt should go down the pipe. let that water pour into, from the bottom, into a 300 gal tank. Overflow goes into another 300 gal tank. These are settling tanks. I get 2" or more in the bottom of the first tank, 1/4" in the second tank and then virtually no sediment in the third big tank that I pump from. I've done this for 20 years. NO problems. do NOT use filters to try to get it out. just not worth it. Let is settle!

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looks like a very dry spring ...no water...but wait til it rains.

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Could you add chipped block in the cavities to?

Great spot for a moonshine still! Got to have cold water for the condenser.

I'm making a spring box just like this. Thank you for this video

Ohhhhh, so that is why there is a pipe coming out of my well. It took me over a year to figure that

We out pip water if 2 mounth right salt spring halls lane

We whant pip water if wash we dirty clothes

Hi ! I’m in Upstate NY and I’m doing research to do this! Where are you located? I’d love to hire you

Won’t the underground water just eventually seep out further and further?

Thanks, bud.

nice thank you

Good to do thing that generations will remember you built. ❤

This is an amazing video, I learned so much, I have a couple of questions, when does a spring become a stream? And is there county permits for collecting water involved,
Thanks in advance

If you get a heavier flow- you could use a rsm pimp and pump it uphill.
Cool lil artesian !
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Too much talking

I am currently tapping a spring on my land in the mountains of NY I have watched your video 20 times over the past few years and now I'm about to do it. I'm confused. But I will do my best. Wish me luck

our house when I was growing up had a water supply from a spring. When we sold the house the water had to be tested and I remember it was found to be no good. I guess we were used to it though.

Hey I meant to ask what kind of black flexible pipe were you using in one of your spring videos?

I lost interest when there was an ad one minute into the video...

Why not chip out the old pipe location there may have been something in there that was blocking your flow. I would never have messed with the water until it leaves the rock, i.e. no hydraulic cement blocking the orifice to the spring then there is no chance of altering the spring and its flow.

We just built a concrete “funnel” to catch the water and put a lid over and and then had the water run down to a spring house to collect and then we used it from there

Do you ever find yourself in North Carolina? I have a property there with a few springs.

please reduce the music volume by 200%, your too low then blasted.

Looks great, BUT above the spring, you need a “surface water diverter system, ( an inverted “V”) so surface water doesn’t seep into your reservoir….

Nice. Why don't you line the catchment with pond liner then fill the area with large washed pebbles?
Oh, heads up you don't need minerals in your water, they are bountiful in your normal healthy diet.

Good video, aye. Question: How did you calculate the height of the overflow?

Love this video! Im planning to get livestock so im going to attempt to tap into another spring that is on my property and this video helped me figure out how to do it. I recently bought a house that uses a spring to supply it with water. My spring box looks similar to the one you built and it flows down an underground pipe for about 250 yards and fills a partially buried 500 gallon tank that is near my house. There is a well pump at the bottom of the tank that pumps it into the house. My tank also has an overflow which runs underground to a creek so the water is constantly flowing.

Awesome!!!
I have a spring that runs all year ling, even on draughts. I just bought the property, and this spring looks nasty, the old owner did a terrible job. I mean, there are even those baby frogs that are 1 inch long and have no legs swimming on the puddle where it pours out of the ground. And is feeds a very large pound about 15 feet away. I have to dig a hole between the spring and the pound and make a dam there, and dig a deeper channel to it, but I am very scared to dig too close to the spring and kill it. Any tips?

Very nicely done. I never thought of hydraulic cement. Where do you get it from. Then do you use bentonite clay in the interior? How did you bring the pipe through the block? I have a 5gpm flowing on my property ALSO in NY. Thank you for your educational vid, it sure is helpful.

Nice work! You could add a couple of small metal trays to the bottom of the box to collect any silt. Then you could periodically dump the silt out of the trays to clean.

Great video. I'm about to attempt to get ours done. I'm not very handy so let's see how it goes

Amazing bro thank you so much

hi, probably better to use a steel top so condensation cannot leach tannin and chemicals from the treated ply into your water .

Awesome work. Know it's tiresome, completely worth it. Family need to appreciate you!

why not put a ball valve on the outlet so the tank can fill up, then open the valve just enough so the outflow isn't greater than the inflow so as to keep the tank at a certain volume. This will allow you a higher velocity at the exit. just a thought

Too many adds

I thought this vid was from 2007 lol

How do you keep that from freezing in winter?

How long is your waterline and is it all downhill?

Does this tank need to be full in order for water to have enough pressure to get to the other end ?

Do you adjust the water flow in this pipe?

Does it freeze in the winter?

I hear you want to see salamanders in the spring water tank because they are an indicator species to let you know the water is good to go.

Great informative video! Thank you for sharing. Question: how do you plan to line the inside with hydraulic cement with the spring flowing? Please share when you do that project. Or perhaps you have since this is a year old. I will check and subscribe. Thanks again.

I once had a cat scan patient whose legs were very badly burned. He had 3rd degree burn scars from doing DIY concrete and he saturated his jeans with it. His neighbor spotted him and had him shower immediately but he still had to have many surgeries. I've never taken the caustic nature of concrete lightly since.