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Cold Spring Harbor Spring, Cold Spring Harbor Library, New York, NY

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It is routed through a hose accessible to all on the side of Harbor Road. It is right across from the library next to a long dock that goes out to the harbor

Nearest Address

Cold Spring Harbor Library, New York

Directions from Nearest Address

Across the street and about 100 feet east.(It is adjacent to the boat launch ramp). Once you pass the library pull into the public parking lot on the right side- it is for the boat launch & hiking trails. If you are lucky, you will be able to make a left out of this parking lot & get a spot across the street- right in front of where the spring water flows.

Vital Information

  • Fee: N/A
  • Access: Public
  • Flow: Continuous
  • TDS: 20
  • Temp: N/A
  • pH: N/A

Hours Spring is Open:

N/A

GPS:

Unknown

Map Link: Cold Spring Harbor Spring Map

Submitted by: Cathy, Anthony

Category : New York / USA
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  • Anthony

    Im so grateful this popped up!!!

  • http://www.rawmodel.com Anthony

    We just went here this evening…it is right across from the library next to a long dock that goes out to the harbor. The TDS read 20! Very nice. There were three other groups there getting water as well, so all seems fine. Drinking the water now…very tasty and clean. Happy to have this option from NYC instead of having to cross over to NJ. No tolls and easy driving the whole way.

  • Anthony

    I went here a couple nights ago and the water doesnt feel or taste good to me. It tastes clean but it also had a after taste that felt like tap water. Other springs ive tasted i could tell were great very easily. There might be some other springs in the state parks in suffolk.

  • Anthony
  • http://holistickat.com/ Kat

    Where do you get the giant glass bottles? I am so excited and grateful to have found this.

  • Anthony

    google wine jugs or glass carboys

  • http://rawd.net/ Dave

    Hey Anthony. There's another Anthony posting here w/o a picture attached. Is that you too? He/you says he's not that into the water here after all. I'm in NYC and am looking for local options for spring water. Have you been to any that you'd recommend? A 2+ hour drive wouldn't be too much. Thanks! D

  • aquabb

    I have been drinking this spring water for about 3 weeks. It tastes a lot better than tap water. This site posted TDS 20. Anyone know more infor about this spring's water quality?
    Thanks

  • http://www.rawmodel.com Anthony

    Hi Dave…that other anthony is not me…(rawmodel.com)

    This water is fine…easily the best option if you are in NYC. A quick drive on the BQE out to Hicksville then head north for 15 minutes. WAY faster than Stokes out in NJ. We still prefer stokes, but if time is a concern, I have NO problem getting water from here. TDS came up 40 for me. The water is cold, but not as cold as it could be because of the long tube it comes out of. I would go.

  • http://www.rawmodel.com Anthony

    Check Better-Bottle.com or fine a local wine/beer supply company. Big glass bottles are ideal, but can be very dangerous and extremely heavy. Consider using highgrade plastic during transportation, or bring cardboard boxes (usually when you buy the bottles they will come with these) and put the bottles (dried off of course) in the boxes when you drive back home.

  • dlg1976

    These guys sell glass carboys in the city- Italian made and Mexican made. I think you can get rubber protectors for them, but I don't know where. Mountain Valley Spring Water delivers water in 5-gallon glass jugs also, and they have bulky plastic containers to protect them. Maybe you could contact them about where to get some.
    THe carboy link is here- http://www.brooklyn-homebrew.com/Brooklyn_Homeb…

  • dlg1976

    Oh, they also sell Better Bottle carboys which are, indeed, super light and durable. I'm always a little skeptical about new technologies and toxicity, but these seem to be pretty tight. You could also load up in a BB and then siphon it into glass when you get home- assuming you have the space for all those extra jugs!

  • dlg1976

    Thanks, Anthony. Will check out. Thank God for Zipcar! D

  • Mario Monaco

    Hi…. I live in Astoria Queens..Spring Harbor ,is that in Long Island… ? How far is it from Queens?

  • Chris

    HI Guys,

    Used to get water from Cold Spring Harbor's spring, but since I've been talking with some raw foodists, locals, and spring water enthusiasts, there might be something else in the water. From what I understand, Cold Spring Harbor laboratories is right there and that's where they do DNA work. Seeing how the lab has been there since before EPA standards or most likely any strict standards were put into place, I got a little wary of getting my water from there. Most likely, these little take home kits can't check out molecular bonding, so until someone or “WE” test it to that level, I'm going to stay clear for a while.

  • Chris

    Just found this too

    http://places.designobserver.com/media/pdf/Cold…

    You never know till you really check.

  • http://coldspringharbor.com/ Cold Spring Harbor

    Living in Cold Spring Harbor is my dream. The view is amazing, and the village quite, but in the same time developed and civilized.

  • http://coldspringharbor.com/ Cold Spring Harbor

    Living in Cold Spring Harbor is my dream. The view is amazing, and the village quite, but in the same time developed and civilized.

  • skippy100

    Just went here yesterday. Be careful of the Google Maps directions when turning off NY-135N. Take the WOODBURY exit toward 25East. Don't continue to Jericho (end of Expressway) that will put you on 25West….e.g. the opposite direction. Even though I got turnaround I finally made it and it was well worth it! Thank you Daniel!

  • gina

    Thanks…is that a platic hose?

  • stephenlandon

    hey thankyou everyone that has made the knowledge of this spring available i have been searching for a spring for so long and did not realize there was one so close to me i live in long beach on the south shore
    thankyouuuuuuu

  • Lisa

    I was here today. Best water ever!

  • Jay

    The Cold spring for the public has been shut down, and the hose removed with only a sign that say's :
    “TAKING SPRING WATER PROHIBITED”
    With no explanation given, after over 100 years, they owe us that.. i'm very upset !
    Just wanted to let people know before they drive.

  • WalterT8

    THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! Who is “they” that have “prohibited” the public from using our natural resources on public property!!!!

  • Jen

    i wonder what the reason for prohibiting water use is. I hope there is not contamination.

  • Lisa T

    Sunday May 16th 2010. The hose has been cut and diverted into a private dock area . There was a sign at the location above which had been painted over as to block out the words “Taking water prohibited.” The sign currently reads “Turn water back on”.

    The gate was open to the dock so I didn't see the sign that it was a private area untill after I filled my jugs,

  • neil

    so is there any hope of getting the water back? who can we talk to?

  • Dave

    Hi Jay,
    We are outraged too! We think we saw you last weekend at the banished spring. In the air above us that day there were heavy chemtrails — just another issue at large – of course the Sping water is more urgent at the moment ..
    We wonder who is responsible for removing the hose and for what reason. ??

  • Kathy

    I also went to CS Harbor and was totally devasted when I had seen that the water was no longer available. So I am wondering, what are our options for pure, fresh spring water for those of us living on Long Island?

  • gina

    If anyone knows of a spring somewhere on long Island please let us know.
    The travel is so far to go west and north. You know there has to be more springs here.

    Thank you!

  • David

    I've been getting cold spring water for a long time now. Someone told me there was a spring in Oyster Bay some years ago in which people abused and made a mess. Driving past Cold spring in a hurry to get to Huntington I saw this man cleaning his vaccum equipment out he must use for a business. Stupid ass! Others like Asian Restaurant owners or something bring many bottles to fill and are just down right selfish! Maybe a sign with Courtesy Tips might help.

  • Dave

    Went by today the dam tyranny of the quote unquote free county we are supposed to be living in ! WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO PREVENT FOLKS FROM GETTING SOME SPRING WATER !! ! See the movie “America – From freedom to facism ” by Aaron Russo

  • Bill

    The spring is back in action. I was there on Sunday and there is a black hose with spring water running out right next to the entrance to the yacht club pier.

  • John

    The water continues to flow heavily out of the rocks to the right of and below the dock. You just need to walk down below the dock to get it. The tubes have been removed but the water still pours out of the rocks. I filled a bottle this way today.

  • Pissed Off

    The dock owner installed video surveillance and anyone trespassing will be convicted!
    Blame the damn Gooks for Ruining our way of life. Liberalism is a Mental Disorder!

  • Amused

    Oh man, this is about to get interesting!

    I'll save the political/racial ranting for the liberal and/or ethnic posters and just say that probably any trespassers will be prosecuted, not convicted. The conviction will be up to a jury not the property owner, but I'd bet dollars to donuts that it would never even get as far as an indictment. Do they have retina scanning devices on those cameras to compare us all with the international spring water thieves database?

    Has anyone even tried communicating with the owners of the property? (I would recommend that most of these posters *not* attempt that, since they don't strike me as being terribly diplomatic).

    Anyway, I haven't been to this spring yet, but this thread line has made me want to come down there and meet y'all!

  • Dave

    BOYCOTT COLD SPRING HARBOR & HUNTINGTON BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS DO NOT SPEND A PENNY THERE HIT THEM IN THEIR WALLETS
    USE THE INTERNET AS A TOOL TO GET THE WORD OUT !! put it on facebook etc !!
    screw them and their slimy control freak ways. Do not let them get over !! cut and paste your
    info on your emails etc!!

  • http://rawd.net Amused

    If I could just say. . .this is how things get out of hand when they don't necessarily need to. Like I said, I've never been to this Spring, but perhaps the people who own the neighboring property have their own reasons for denying access. Perhaps someone (not you, of course) was noisy, messy, or inebriated when they filled up and it left them with a bad taste in their mouths. Maybe people were rude or disrespectful.

    I don't know the answer to these questions, and it seems like neither does anybody else on this list. Why not ask the owners what their motivation was and ask if they'd consider working something out? Maybe leaving a donations box nearby, or charging 50 cents per visit, or requiring a call in advance to control disorderly behavior might be all they would need to feel comfortable. And how bad would that be?

    Being a property owner can be a huge hassle, especially when random people are wandering up into your space every few days. And some of those people (again, not you) might be kind of weird.

    Anyway, they may be total a**holes, that's true, but we'll never know until somebody kindly asks for an explanation. One way to ensure that they *become* total a**holes is by preemptively treating them that way and starting some kind of war on their town.

    Have a little compassion for the people who live/work on the land full time and realize that we water foragers are guests who visit for a short while and move on, while they have to live there every day. A little understanding can go a long way towards finding a solution, but the freaking out will only lead to more problems.

    Remember, the point of this is so we can get some good water, not to raise holy hell on people we don't even know. Keep the mission in sight, lest we lose more of these wells.

    D

    PS- not to jump to conclusions, but I think it's worth noting that after what, 100 years (?), the well is only now being closed now that it's been publicized on this site? It might help if Daniel put up some guidelines as to proper behavior with “the natives” when filling up in case “disorderly conduct” was what caused the closing. Presumably more and more people are visiting now, which means more and more chances of a mishap. This is something that we should bear in mind across the world as spring water becomes more and more popular. D

  • Joe

    I think there needs to be a proper conduct or else sign.

  • Michelle

    I have been coming here for several years and have run into people who have been for 25+ years. I thought that it was public property as it is literally on the side of a public road. the water hose could easily be rerouted to public property if there was demand. I emailed the town of Huntington about the situation and didn't get a response. If anyone is up for organizing, I will be the first in line to get our water turned back on. I'll keep posted.

  • Susan

    Hello all,
    I live in CSH, and don't know why the water was shut off either. All I know, is that people that do take the water have been posting obnoxious signs such as “Turn the Water On”, and “Obama Shut off the Water”, and there have been people out at a table on the side of the road (and 25A is very dangerous) having people sign a petition to bring the water back . Many have commented that CSH is a quaint old village, and we'd like to keep it that way. Anyone who lives here sees people taking water at all hours of the day and night with lights on, radios blasting and leaving water bottles, cigarette buts, garbage on the site. Maybe you aren't those people, but that's what we residents see and you know the saying “One bad apple spoils the whole barrel! I have never tried the water, and don't want to. I'm not sure why you want to because for all you know, someone might have put their mouth on the hose to drink, or maybe their dog drank from the hose and licked it. The whole idea is disgusting and unsanitary to me no matter how great you think the water is.
    Just my thoughts, sorry.

  • Elizabeth

    The water has been tested, it has very high levels of nitrates and nitrites, otherwise known as pesticides and fertilizers. It also has extremely high acidic levels which is terrible for our health. It might taste good but maybe there is a good reason, a health reason for shutting the water off. This has nothing to do with your own freedom rights this is a health issue. Where do you think all the pesticides go, what about all the maliathion that was sprayed for West Niles, why are they're no longer lobsters, shrimp and oysters in our water. Why in the world would you drink something that is killing off our wildlife. I don't get it…..

  • Michelle

    Hello,

    Would you be so kind as to inform us as to whom has tested the water and gotten these results? A respected friend of mine told me that the water checked out. I was also told that the water quality is monitored by the Town of Huntington. I have not confirmed this, as the TOH has not returned my emails.

    In all due respect to Susan, my family has lived in TOH, Lloyd Harbor since 1991. Obviously, I may have missed witnessing some poor behavior at the spring, but I must say that in almost 20 years (has it been that long!) I haven't seen any rambunctious behavior at the spring. However, I do know that in the past several years that I have been retrieving our water there I have seen and met many Korean and Asian families and Latino landscapers filling up water vessels. As a graduate of Cold Spring Harbor HIgh School, where at the time that I attended there were statistics of 1/2 of an African American student in 7-12 grade school, I would hate to think that the decision to cut the line was the product of discrimination. This spring could easily be rerouted 10-20 feet to public property. In Johnson, VT there is a quaint (and functional) tap created out of concrete and stone.

    IMHO, in so far as the sanitary condition of the spring- it is always running and anything that may have touched the nozzle is washed away. For those of us who are informed about water, tap water is not the answer. Not only has it been stripped of all of its mineral content, but it has many unwanted residues including jet fuel (the government has mandated 'safe' quantities) and trace amounts of many prescription drugs, not to mention chlorine and (in some counties) flouride, both known to cause disruption in thyroid function (possibly other things, this is only what I am personally aware of). How do we know that spring water from commercial sources doesn't have dog drool (lol!) amoung other things? Factories are scary places even 100 years after Upton Sinclair.

    Honestly, this spring is very well used. There are times that I have had to wait for 20+ minutes or stop back on a different occasion. For this reason, I think that the town should post its reasons for this significant change to people's lives. I think that this community has been greatly overlooked and it would be common courtesy to provide an explanation.

  • Dave

    Hell Folks -

    You can see if “YOUR” government works for you now or if it is all a BS illusion & if we actually live in a “free” country .. Come to the “SRRING WATER RALLY” @ the Cold Spring Harbor boat ramp on SUNDAY June 13, from 10 am – 3 PM bring you friends and familly and some empty water bottles and some signs and show the rotten creeps from the town that “WE THE PEOPLE” want “OUR” – (yes it is OURS) water back — next they will try to shut off your air supply.. Like Joani Mitchell sang – you don't know what you've got till its gone! NEXT sttep – come to TOWN OF HUNTINGTON town hall meeting June 15 @7:00 PM and tell em you want the water accesible.. it is now running into the harbor
    and is hard to access and on algae covered slippery rocks !!

  • Elizabeth

    I personally tested the water and so did a third party company. On any given day the water tests differently. Forget the pesticides, the acidity content of the water is scarily high. Everything bad likes acid and thrives on it. Cancer cannot thrive in an alkaline state but loves acid. For that reason alone, I would not drink or recommend drinking that water. I don't know why the water was shut but I do know that in addition to my tests, the town has been called and notified of the third party water testing. I ask myself, if they operate and regulate that spout, could they possibly have a law suit on their hands if they allow the water to run and people to drink from it knowing it does not meet standards. I have been here for 40 years and know of people who have drunk from that spring for years, I do not want to share their health situations nor do I know if any of them relate to the spring. I would not blindly drink that water. The folks signing the petition should maybe get together and have their own tests done.

  • Dave

    Miss snot ass Susan,

    Why don't you petition the town and now have it renamed COLD HARBOR or Harbor
    NY.. – since there is no spring soon . You probably drink bottled water from plastic bottles that produce more toxic materials since most of the plastic is incinerated and then trashes the air we breath. Your attitude sucks – you also probably drive a big ass
    petroleum sucking SUV and don't give a crap about anyone but your narrow circle of like
    minded snot asses and your ways will be the demise of “OUR QUALITY OF LIFE”
    If you have any kids you don't care if the enviromnent they have been handed down will be devoid of fish and clean air etc – due to your SELFISH self serving ways.. Why don't
    you birth a child into a toxic wastedump !! or a cesspool for that matter !!
    People like you are a major reason why the world is so messed UP !
    GOOD LUCK – If I had the opportunity I would flush people like you down the toilet
    like a piece of stinking fecal matter

  • gina

    I would have to agree with Michell about other sources of water on Tap and Spring water we buy in bottles besides that, it may have dog drool or whatever…LOL it is Pasturized…it has to be. So springs are better but should be tested frequently from a reliable source.

  • Silvia Sotiriou

    This is awesome! Could you please tell us where you get the glass bottles? Thanks!

  • http://rawd.net Amused

    You can get glass bottles here:
    http://www.brooklyn-homebrew.com/Brooklyn_Homeb…

    They also have “Better Bottles,” which supposedly to not leech and are lighter and sturdier than glass.

  • Dcbus

    Hi Sylvia,

    Please come to the Spring Water Rally and tell your friends !

    Dave

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