Fredrick-Miller Spring

This has pretty decent water quality, however, it has had elevated Nitrate levels in the past (believed to be contaminated from nearby landfill). Here is a link to water test results from this spring:

The Fredrick-​Miller Spring is located on the east side of Spring Road (County Road 4) in Eden Prairie one-​quarter mile north of Highway 212. Once you see Lions Tap restaurant (good burgers by the way), just head north about ¼ mile.
There are a few parking spaces for you to stop at and there’s a pipe sticking out of the ground that runs fresh drinking quality water year round. It is always clean and always cold. If you sit there and watch for awhile, you will see that every 3 – 4 minutes someone will stop, fill up a bunch of water bottles, and then get back in their car and drive off. I would guess about 200 people a day stop there. The Lion’s Tap restaurant nearby even has some water containers there because they know a lot of people come there before or after going to the spring. There is also a small nature park and a stream there.
It is very popular, but is the water coming from a pipe at a roadside stop safe to drink? Yes according to the city of Eden Prairie, who regularly tests it for safety. Although they warn that spring water’s quality can change from time to time and it is possible to get a bad batch.
It seems most people don’t trust their public tap water for drinking regularly. It has long been known that plants don’t do as well on tap water because of the chemicals used to treat the water (especially the chlorine.) Spring water is always cold because it comes from deep under ground. And it is always clean because the very dense soil filters out the impurities. It is forced above ground naturally because of the pressure the earth puts on it. It carries minerals natural to the ground. And many people are convinced spring water carries curative properties
A gallon of bottled spring water costs more than a gallon of gas, and ¼ of all bottled water (like Aquafina) is just filtered tap water (you have to read the label carefully.) It has recently been shown that a lot of bottled water contains harmful industrial chemicals (phthalate, adipate, or styrene) leached from the plastic bottle.
I was weary that it would come out muddy but to my surprise it was crystal clear and not a grain of soil to be found in it. It did taste a little different than tap water though. It tasted a bit like the hard tap water (no water softener) I had in one of the homes I used to live in. After a few sips it seemed to taste even better than I was used to drinking. And surprisingly enough, the dry scaly skin on my shoulders became soft within a few days and stayed soft until I ran out of spring water. It became soft again when I went and got another batch. Go figure.