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

[Wayne SW/MO]

I've used a purifier for decades, it beats hauling water, or worse being sick. I always start using my cooler water and then when it runs out I use a coffee filter over the intake. If you have a bunch of kids you might want to have some run the water threw a cone coffee filter in a funnel and then purify that water, it would be a little faster overall.

Boiling spring water at night with what ever fire you have left would probably be the fastest, unless the fire source is a backpacking stove.

[2sheds]

I'm wondering if we have developed a consensus yet. It makes a huge difference where you dip your bottle (top is bad, bottom is worse, mid-level is recvommended. There are lots of filter grades, the finer mesh are required for some conditions, including proximity to beaver. Is this close to what is being decided ?

1. Untreated Water = HIghest Risk
   
2. Low Quality Filter = Some Risk
   
3. Chemically Treated (chlorine or iodine) = OK
   
4. Boiled = OK
   
5. High Quality Filter = Best
   

[2sheds]

Hi Max

Water cache opportunities:

Assuming you will put in at Greer Crossing, you can cache water at Turner (5 mi) and Whitten (11 mi). Hike 1/4 mi to Huffstedler's store from Riverton (19 mi), cache water at Narrows-142 (28 mi) and Myrtle (33 mi). Not sure what opportunities exist after crossing into Arkansas.

I always chemically treat or boil.

[MaxDrown]

Hi Max

Water cache opportunities:

Assuming you will put in at Greer Crossing, you can cache water at Turner (5 mi) and Whitten (11 mi). Hike 1/4 mi to Huffstedler's store from Riverton (19 mi), cache water at Narrows-142 (28 mi) and Myrtle (33 mi). Not sure what opportunities exist after crossing into Arkansas.

I always chemically treat or boil.

Good info. Thank you.

[gotmuddy]

where can you cache water at the narrows? There are no facilities, nor is there are myrtle.

[jdmidwest]

where can you cache water at the narrows? There are no facilities, nor is there are myrtle.

There is a parking lot with a road.

[gotmuddy]

There is a parking lot with a road.

reading comprehension failed me. I was thinking he was looking for fresh water already there.

[jdmidwest]

reading comprehension failed me. I was thinking he was looking for fresh water already there.

There is a nice spring there too. It used to be a place where they raised aquatic plants.

[Wayne SW/MO]

There are a lot of tablets available now that don't cause a bad taste. I have some in my gear that I've only used once, but I didn't notice any after taste. You can also carry coffee filters and bleach, get the recipe off the net. I don't remember the amount added or the time involved.

[gotmuddy]

There is a nice spring there too. It used to be a place where they raised aquatic plants.

I have been to the spring, its a wonderus place.