It discharges between 1 and 10 megalitres (220,000 to 2.2 million gallons) per day into Silent Pool; and the lake water exhibits a blue opalescence characteristic of chalk spring-fed ponds.

A vintage wood-fired steam boiler was restored to power the hand-built copper still, made for Silent Pool Distillers by the Arnold Holstein Company in the Lake Constance area of Germany.

[8] Silent Pool is linked to a 19th century tale that says King John on his horse abducted a woodcutter's daughter who was forced into the deep water and drowned.

This story appears to have come from a book written by Martin Farquhar Tupper in 1858 called Stephan Langton or The Days Of King John (A Romance of the Silent Pool).

[10][11] In December 1926, when crime writer Agatha Christie disappeared, it was feared that she had drowned in Silent Pool after her abandoned car was discovered at nearby Newlands Corner.