The town’s water is safe. The creek that the hikers are in is Kanarra Creek and is irrigation water only. It comes from five different springs on Kanarra Mountain and there is water running in the creek year-round. The water is tested monthly and the levels are currently very safe due in part to your diligence in keeping the area free from trash and contamination. The town’s culinary water is piped 40 to 50 feet underground to a separate spring. At that point it is piped to the water tank and treated. No surface water comes in contact with the town’s drinking water.