• Town maintains integrity of the water source.

For now the Intermittent Spring continues to flow and there are no problems with the infrastructure associated with Afton’s main source of culinary water in the Bridger-Teton National Forest.

The site is a popular tourist destination stop in the summer months.

A rock slide covered the mouth of the spring in May of this year, but water continued to flow both down the mountainside and into the Afton municipal water system.

“There’s nothing we need to do,” Town Administrator Violet Sanderson said on the SVI Media Weekday Wake-Up program at the end of October, as she advised the town has been monitoring for water flow and quality throughout the summer.

An Afton municipal pipeline carries the water from inside the Spring and down the canyon to holding facilities before  it continues through a distribution system that supplies the residential and commercial residents of the community.

While water supplies are unchanged, the view and access to the spring has been altered. Large rocks cover the area around the mouth of the Spring.

“It has changed the visibility of the Spring and availability to walk up there,” Sanderson explained. “The trail system isn’t in place.”

Sanderson advised, “There is some work we may have to do. We want to make sure of the integrity of the transmission line encased in concrete, we want to keep that safe.”

Any work at the site will be coordinated through the Bridger-Teton and Army Corp of Engineers.

She suggested future work may improve access to the spring and allow for continued maintenance.

Sanderson summarized that  now the system is working and providing water to Afton and the spring continues to function in an intermittent fashion late in the summer and fall seasons.

“Everything is working well and we haven’t touched it,” Sanderson concluded. “Our goal is always to protect and maintain our infrastructure.”