AbstractsGeography &GIS

"Meramec Spring is situated in the east central part of Phelps County, Missouri, about one quarter of a mile west of the county line. The spring proper is in the center of a small natural amphitheatre from which the water flows through a valley which has a bearing of approximately N. 30 degrees W., about one quarter of a mile from the spring the course of the stream is changed about sixty degrees to the east, one quarter mile from this bend the stream joins the Meramec River...The volume of water delivered by the spring is modified to some extent by the amount of rain precipitated in the surrounding district...The improvements contemplated are a dam and sluice to impound and deliver the water from the spring to the turbine in the power house" – p. [1]-2.