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photohiker
Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 5 Location: Indiana
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Posted: 1/25/2005, 3:38 am Post subject: Havasu Falls campground |
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Does anyone know if the water at the havasu falls campground has to be filtered? I recently called and made campground reservations for a few days in may,and I was told that the water was treated. The havasupai website says the opposite. It tells you to treat the water before drinking. I don't want to carry a water pump if I don't have to. |
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Tom Treks Gear Addict
Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 3347
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Posted: 1/25/2005, 6:06 am Post subject: |
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There is a tiny treatment buidling located at the campsite with a faucet on an outside wall. It should be okay for cooking, but I wouldn't trust it for drinking. Go get yourself a bottle of water purification tablets, or liquid, to bring along. I treat all water when I'm there.
The spring water spigots near the purification building should also be treated.
It would be a bummer to get all the way down there and have someone get sick. |
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Arizonaheat Got Supes Juice?
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 1741 Location: Mesa, AZ
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Posted: 1/25/2005, 6:14 am Post subject: |
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I've drank it straight out of the treatment building without any ill effects, but like Tom said if you want to play it safe filter or treat with tablets.
Both Crypto and Giradia have at least a seven day incubation period so the chance of getting stomach upset while you are down there would be slim.
They had major flooding down there from the recent rains that did some severe damage. At one point they thought it was going to take out the town. they evacuated a lot of people. _________________ Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. |
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Shihiyea
Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 1135
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Posted: 1/25/2005, 6:46 am Post subject: |
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Ditto to AzHeat, I've drank straight from the water station without treating (all 4 trips) without getting sick. Mary |
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Sande J Calamity J
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 725 Location: Mesa, AZ
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Posted: 1/25/2005, 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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Ditto to AzHeat, I've drank straight from the water station without treating (all 4 trips) without getting sick. Mary
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Me too! _________________ And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
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azhiker96
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1419
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Posted: 1/25/2005, 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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I've drunk water straight from the spring, before it goes through the treatment station and didn't have a problem. You've got to catch it from the pipe, not from the catch pool underneath. |
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Vashti
Joined: 10 Feb 2003 Posts: 135 Location: Gilbert, AZ
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Posted: 1/25/2005, 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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I must be the only paranoid one... we filter *always*. As an additional bonus, if you decide to hike down to the Colorado, then you can bring the filter and not have to carry too much water for the trip.
_________________ Be Happy!
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paintninaz
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 3515
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Posted: 1/25/2005, 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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Sande J wrote: |
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Ditto to AzHeat, I've drank straight from the water station without treating (all 4 trips) without getting sick. Mary
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Me three! ....then again...I drink city of Phoenix water! _________________ ~Tracy
“Friends make the bad times good — and the good times unforgettable.” |
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Hnak
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 1766 Location: Prescott, AZ
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Posted: 1/26/2005, 4:14 am Post subject: |
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paintninaz wrote: |
Sande J wrote: |
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Ditto to AzHeat, I've drank straight from the water station without treating (all 4 trips) without getting sick. Mary
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Me three! ....then again...I drink city of Phoenix water! |
Me four... I've enjoyed water straight from a number of springs in the Canyon with no ill effect (yet)... Thunder Spring, Deer Spring, etc... However, there is nothing wrong with treating the water. I know a couple people who did get giardia when they didn't expect to, so it can happen... |
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Tom Treks Gear Addict
Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 3347
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Posted: 1/27/2005, 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah yeah. Heap big spring drinkers we got here.
We'll talk again when you have to run out of the tent clenching your "butt cheeks" at 3:00 a.m. on a cold morning...
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azhiker96
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1419
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Posted: 1/27/2005, 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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I'm in awe that paintninaz actually drinks City of Phoenix water!
I get the filtered stuff from the blue machines outside of Fry's.
HIG, you just described my first trip to Rocky Point! I think it was the oysters on the half shell. |
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