The irony of having a home next to a private, spring-fed lake is that you don't have the spring-fed water to drink and you do have the high water table with which to contend.As you can see from this picture [click on picture for a larger view], the walkway and lawn are soaked from the water being pumped out of the Michigan basement sump. The water table is about two to three feet below the ground... the same height at the lake.
The drinking water is from wells, however. And the water is full of minerals... hard as rocks. If you like orange-colored white shirts and sheets, you don't have to treat the water. I would not recommend drinking it, however.
Our neighbor, Ben, put us on to a small company about 30 miles north that specializes in treating bad water. Environmental Water Systems is run by Nick DeSalvio. It turns out that he installed a water treatment and whole house reverse osmosis system for one of the family members at Pine Building ... small world. For the price of a Viking range, we get decent water. Nothing is cheap on a lake.
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