How To Purify The Water Of The Eleven Point River For Drinking?

[KCRIVERRAT]

Got Muddy... named after his underwear.

[jdmidwest]

Got Muddy... named after his underwear.

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Got Muddy... named after his underwear.

That's funny... I don't care who ur..

[Aaron Mills]

my well is fairly shallow, 173ft but it is filtered through gravel all the way. I dont drink from the big springs, there is one between rainbow and blair that comes out of a bluff on the left side of the river. Every time I stop by there I get a drink. It is always refreshing. On the 11pt about 300yd below morgan spring float camp there is a small spring on the left side of the river that is hidden behind a tree right next to the river. Great water. Every time you swim in a lake/pond/river you drink water.

I seriously hope you are just trolling for responses. I can tell you with great certainty that it is not safe to drink from the rivers/springs. if you love the water just buy a 20 dollar filter that fits on top of your water bottle and knock yourself out. it may save you thousands for a hospital stay getting over bloody foul diarrhea. i see beavers up and down the river all the time right where you are talking about drinking from. hence the "beaver fever" post earler. past results are not an indicator of future performance as the stupid mutual fund commercials say (as it pertains to) the "i haven't gotten sick yet argument." and as for the "you drink water every time you swim" argument, you have a much greater chance of fighting off a small amount of a bacteria/virus/protozoan than a larger amount. there is always a threshhold of the amount of orgamisms it takes to get you sick. that is why generally people don't get sick from swimming. I say generally b/c when water is heavily contaminated people do get sick simply from swimming in it (read lake of the ozarks and their e-coli problems) and when i say "ecoli problems" read "someone elses or animals S@#$ inside your body. it takes something like 1-3 cholera "germs" to make you deathly ill. keep that in mind. it doesn't take very much of the wrong stuff to be wishing you didn't drink from that pretty little spring that drips out of the rocks.

[Wayne SW/MO]

One of my good fishing buddies managed to ingest guardia while swimming. It took him 3 months to comeback completely.

Springs are subject to runoff and are magnets for animals and animals are what they are, infested.

[LittleRedFisherman]

Many used to routinely go to Ravenden Springs and collect water for drinking. My grandfather always did when we were traveling to Hardy. He would get like 5 gallon of it, and drink on it for a week or so while farming. He loved the stuff and never made him sick. I've drank gallons of it as well as a kid. Never made me sick, but without being to graphic, it changed the color of stuff when going to the bathroom..(black as coal). Don't know what was in that water to do that, my grandfather said it had healthy minerals in it.

[gotmuddy]

I do crazy things like drink water straight from the waterhose too.

[jdmidwest]

I do crazy things like drink water straight from the waterhose too.

Does it come from a shallow well??

[gotmuddy]

Does it come from a shallow well??

about 170ft.

[LittleRedFisherman]

Cody, where I'm at we have 30 feet wells, with a static water table from around 8 feet, so I know ours aur shallow...lol. I'm still alive.. We have county water now, but I can still make better sweet tea out of that same well we used to use for our house, which is now just to water the yard. Biggest problem we have now with our ground water is it's high in iron.