Maramec Spring - St. James, Missouri
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BruceS
N 37° 57.205 W 091° 31.973
15S E 628893 N 4201661
The fifth largest spring in Missouri with a flow of nearly 100 million gallons per day. The spring in located in Maramec Spring Park south of St. James, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WMDRMX
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 02/19/2012
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MERAMEC SPRINGS, a charming rustic scene. The spring is in a tiny wooded valley at the foot of a high, rock-studded cliff, and issues from a circular basin In a wide stream that rushes over an old rock dam, passes swiftly beneath an arched bridge, and flows onward into the Meramec River, approximately one mile away. The maximum flow is 271,000,000 gallons daily. At one time the water power was used to serve an Iron mine, blast furnace, and gristmill. Today (1941) a small power plant, housed in a frame and native stone building that blends with the wooded hillsides, uses the stream to develop electricity for a near-by dairy farm. - Missouri: A Guide to the "Show-Me" State, Tour 5, pg. 411.
The spring is now in Mecamec Spring Park, a private park operated by the James Foundation. The spring provides water to state trout hatchery. The spring is the fifth largest in the state of Missouri. The spring is listed as a National Natural Landmark.