New York State Spring Water
What actually has to be true for water to be called spring water — and where Avoca's comes from.
A Clear Definition of Water
New York's definition of spring water is a plain one: water that reaches the surface on its own, from an underground source, without being pumped or forced there. A lot of what gets sold as spring water does not actually meet it.
Avoca Water does. The spring sits on a stretch of land in Avoca, NY, in Steuben County, part of the Finger Lakes Region, where water has been finding its own way to the surface for thousands of years — moving up through a glacial valley of sand and gravel, not pumped from a well or drawn off a municipal line.
Our spring source runs steady, more than fifty gallons a minute, in every season, without help.
There's more on how the spring was found and the facility was built on the History page.
Bottled Close to the Source
A lot of bottled water sold in New York does not come from New York. It gets shipped in from wherever is cheapest that quarter, sometimes blended from more than one source, sometimes just filtered municipal water with a mountain drawn on the label. Avoca Spring Water is bottled a few miles from where it comes out of the ground, by the same family that has been providing water from the spring since 2003.
The spring, the facility, and the water itself are inspected under New York's certification program for bottled and bulk water. Avoca holds NYSHD Cert. #486, current on the state's own list of certified facilities — see what that certification actually requires.
Since 2003
Same spring, same family, from the start.
50+ Gal/Min
The natural flow rate, steady through every season.
NYSHD Cert. #486
Certified by the New York State Department of Health.
Steuben County, NY
Finger Lakes Region, upstate New York.
