WATER WATER EVERYWHERE!

Ironically, when the heavans have been more than generous with the supply of free water in the form of rain here are Cologin we have been battling with the construction of a new water treatment plant and all the groundworks that go with laying new water pipes from our collection well in the hills (fed by a natural spring) and the main tanks feeding the park, the Barn and all our houses. In fact, the loch at the top of our hill - Loch Gleanabhearaigh - forms the water resorvoir for Oban. So in a way we have the same water supply as the town centre - we just don't have a mains connection!

Our water has often been praised by guests as it is incredibly soft and as spring water it has a beautiful flavour. However, it can occassionaly take on a hint of colour from the peaty earth through which the spring emerges. The new filtrations system should sort this out and take the quality of our water to a standard that meets the latest EC regulation! Of course if we just bottled it at source we could sell it as Cologin Spring Water and it wouldn't need to meet any minimum standard! Such is the incomprehensible nature of the red tape that surrounds the EC.