Nobody is picking on you, we are challenging your assertions. Would you rather me defer/give me a break to you just because of your age, your physical condition, etc. (and how old would I know you are anyway?)?
I assume people populate this forum because they want to learn something, which sometimes means you will be told you are wrong. Sometimes it hurts to hear it.
*It's just the fact of my experiences with well, or ground water, & springs that were locked in those pockets until drilled into. Some springs that flow through fissures into the ground water can be tainted, as we both mentioned. But the ones around NE Ohio seem to be fairly clean. Some well water back home in WV was just plain nasty tasting by comparison. So I know that. But I was just trying to express the basic differences between the two. I've been around the country a couple times, & have tasted the differences in many places, but not all.*
This is untrue, spring water can certainly run through the ground water table on its way into the spring aquifer. Maybe I'm confused on what you are calling a spring. I even took the opportunity to read up to springs to find out if I was who was wrong. As Onkel_Udo pointed out, there are many geologic versions of a spring. I'm still unsure what the original point of spring water was...to me it is the mineral profile that is important, not the source of the water.
Even if you assume it has always been entombed in rock upon formation of that rock layer, the water could still pick up iron ions from the bedrock itself, could it not?
*It would depend on the bedrock of the given area, of course. But there's a lot of sedimentary & igneous bedrock out there, depending on area & depth. *
uh, ok...I guess I was the "spambot" poster, not sure what that means.