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Dowsing Revelations
by Jacqueline Froelich
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Since Clear Spring reservation was on city property, we felt it necessary to alert City officials about the rejuvenated spring. Several members of the Water Center met with Mayor Richard Schoeninger, who enthusiastically received the report of the efforts and endorsed further attempts. He then referred the project to the Parks Commission for their approval and further action. Because they had plans for developing a recreational facility in that area that did not include a "renewed" spring, they preferred that the rehabilitated spring remain underground rather than be brought above ground.
After further deliberation, the Commission chose to dowse two more springs. Although the original plans were to clean up the springs by diverting, through dowsing, potable water into the existing channels, the Commission was convinced that the State Health Department would never approve the springs as a source for drinking water. Instead, the Commission chose to redirect the dowsing project to one of increasing the flow of slow moving or dry springs rather than reducing the pollution.
A month later, the dowsers met with members of the Water Center and the Eureka Springs Parks Commission to rehabilitate Little Eureka Spring and Old Soldier Spring. After dowsing, flow of Little Eureka increased from approximately 5 gallons per minute to 8 gpm. Similar efforts made with Old Soldier Spring, however, were not as fruitful. Its flow was not affected.
The Parks Commission, satisfied with the results of the dowser's efforts, endorsed future work with Eureka's springs. In particular, they are interested in seeing Basin
Spring, one of the most visible and visited springs in town, rehabilitated.
But it was not until seven years later that we were prepared to try once again.
In 1990, the Water Center established a philanthropic project, The AquaTerra Fund, which acts as a conduit between those with prosperity, and those small but potent ecological projects in need of capitalization. Recently Olemara Peters, an Earthhealer based out of Washington state, made a seed donation to the Fund. Part of the money was allocated to the purchase of water testing equipment for a local stream team effort, and the remaining money was donated to Ozark Research Institute. Concurrently, Harold agreed to once again work with Eureka's springs. We asked him to dowse clean water into two springs and to increase the flow to two more. We purchased water test kits to measure the presence of bacteria in the spring water and secured a device to measure the flow of gallons per minute. Harold, along with Gladys and their granddaughter, drove up to meet us.
Which brings us to the beginning of our story.
Before we got off on dowsing each other's energy fields, we had just completed testing one of three springs that Harold had chosen from the 90 springs and seeps that permeate the 115 year-old village of Eureka Springs. Actually, "chosen" is the wrong word. Harold sat down earlier that day with a pendulum and dowsed from a list of the springs which would be the most appropriate to work. He was unfamiliar with the city's springs system, so we were extremely pleased when he chose three springs that were of special interest to the Water Center: Sweet Spring, a beautifully landscaped spring located in the heart of the village; Onyx Spring (or "Laundry Spring" as it was known in the old days), located under a bluff in a quiet neighborhood; and Cave Spring, the cryptish looking mountain-side spring where we had experienced our energy- field encounter session. He also picked one other, Water Street Hollow Spring, but after searching the backwoods "holler" for a half-hour to no avail, we decided to concentrate our efforts on the other three.
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