Ice Mountain (water)

Bottled water brand

Ice Mountain


Market	Midwestern United States
Produced by	BlueTriton Brands
Introduced	2002; 22 years ago (2002)
Type	Still
pH	7.9-8.2
Bromine (Br)	0.014-0.02
Calcium (Ca)	45-80
Chloride (Cl)	1.1-6.6
Fluoride (F)	0-0.32
Manganese (Mn)	0
Magnesium (Mg)	16-31
Nitrate (NO₃)	0
Potassium (K)	0-1.3
Sodium (Na)	2.5-6.4
Sulfate (SO₄)	10-16
TDS	170-310^[1]
Website	icemountainwater.com
All concentrations in milligrams per liter (mg/L); pH without units

Ice Mountain is a brand of bottled water from BlueTriton Brands, produced and marketed primarily in the Midwest region of the United States, first introduced to the public in 2002.^[2] Ice Mountain sources their water from two groundwater wells at Sanctuary Spring in Mecosta County, Michigan and/or Evart Spring in Evart, Michigan.^[3]^[4] The water is drawn from underground springs using pump technology. Bottling is done at a plant in Stanwood, Michigan.^[5]

Water sourcing issues

Ice Mountain has been part of the Great Lakes water use debate, in which diversion of the basin's primary and secondary water for export has been controversial.^[3]^[6] In 2004, a Michigan court ordered pumping of Sanctuary springs to cease. After an appellate court overturned the cease and desist order, the company and local groups came to an agreement to pump only 218 US gallons (830 L; 182 imp gal) per minute, which is comparable to other local beverage operations.^[7] Nestlé (which owned Ice Mountain at the time) has run into similar local opposition when trying to locate a new source location near the headwaters of the White River in the upper lower peninsula of Michigan.^[8] In 2017, Nestle applied for permits to increase production to 400 gallons (US) per minute.^[9] In 2019, a Michigan appellate court ruled that Nestle's Ice Mountain bottled water operation was not an essential public service, its bottled water was not a public water supply and Osceola Township was within its rights to deny the company zoning approval for a new booster pump station to move its water.^[10]

References

^ "2020 Ice Mountain Water Analysis Report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-02-28. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
^ "BlueTriton Brands celebrates 20 years of Ice Mountain® bottled water operations in Michigan". 2022-08-16. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
^ ^a ^b Barber, Sally (2006-11-07). "Ice Mountain remains central to water debate". Archived from the original on September 29, 2009. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
^ Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Drinking Water and Radiological Protection Division (2006-11-07). "Perrier Group of America Bottled Water Project (Ice Mountain Spring Water) Response to Public Comments Document" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-08-16.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "How Michigan water becomes a product inside Nestle's Ice Mountain plant". mlive. December 8, 2016.
^ Edwards, Chase (2002-08-01). "RUMBLES ON ICE MOUNTAIN". Archived from the original on 2008-06-14. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
^ "Nestlé Waters North America Reaches Agreement on Water Withdrawal Amounts at Sanctuary Springs Source" (PDF) (Press release). 2006-01-26. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
^ "Nestlé raises stakes in bottled water battle". 2007-01-27. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
^ "Planning commission to vote on Nestle water permit". 2017-04-18. Archived from the original on 2017-04-19. Retrieved 2017-04-18.
^ Matheny, Keith. "State Court of Appeals rules against Nestle's Ice Mountain bottled water in zoning dispute". Detroit Free Press.

External links

Official website

BlueTriton Brands

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Zephyrhills

Category

Nestlé

Divisions

Nestlé Purina PetCare Nestlé Waters Nestlé Wyeth Nutrition
Divested	BlueTriton Brands (Nestlé Waters North America)

Subsidiaries

Nestlé India (62.76%)
Nestlé Pakistan
Nestlé Canada
Nestlé Japan
Nestlé Malaysia
Nestlé Lanka

Joint ventures

Other assets

Hsu Fu Chi (60%)
L'Oréal (30.3%)
Osem (100%)
Yinlu Foods (60%)
Malher (100%)
Lactalis-Nestlé Fresh Products

Brands

Appliances	BabyNes Dolce Gusto Nespresso Special.T
Baby nutrition	BabyNes Bear Brand Cerelac Gerber Nido
Baking	Libby's Toll House cookies
Bottled water	Contrex Acqua Panna Perrier Princes Gate Pure Life S.Pellegrino Vittel
Cereals	Cheerios¹ Chocapic Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cookie Crisp¹ Corn Flakes Fitness Golden Grahams¹ Golden Nuggets Lion Cereal Lucky Charms¹ Milo Cereal Nesquik (cereal)^6,7 Trix¹ Shreddies⁷ Shredded Wheat⁷
Chocolate and desserts	Animal Bar Abuelita Aero Aero Biscuits After Eight Allen's Bar One Bertie Beetle Big Turk Blue Riband Black Magic Bono Breakaway Cailler Caramac Carlos V Cheekies Chokito Coffee Crisp Crisp Crunch¹² Drifter Fox's Garoto Goobers Kit Kat³ Kit Kats in Japan Kohler Life Savers¹⁴ Lion Mackintosh's Toffee Matchmakers Menier Chocolate Milkybar Milo Mirage Munchies Negresco Nestlé Milk Chocolate Passatempo Peppermint Crisp Perugina Polo Quality Street Red Ripperz Rolo³ Rowntree's Rowntree's Fruit Gums Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles Sin Parar Smarties⁴ Svitoch TEX Walnut Whip White Knight Yorkie Zvečevo
Coffee and beverages	Abuelita Alpine⁸ Acticor BabyNes Blue Bottle Coffee Boost Carnation^8,9 Caro Chameleon Cold-Brew Chuckie Coffee-Mate Dolce Gusto Huesitos Klim La Lechera Menier Milo cocoa Nescafé Nescafé Azera Nescafé Gold Nescau Nesfruta Nespresso Nesquik Nestea Ovaltine⁴ Ricoré Seattle's Best Coffee Starbucks ¹³ Supligen Sweet Leaf Zoégas
Dairy products	Alpine⁸ Bear Brand^10,11 Carnation^8,9 Coffee-Mate La Lechera Nesquik
Ice cream	D'Onofrio Drumstick¹⁵ Eskimo Pie¹⁵ Fab Frosty Paws¹⁵ Häagen-Dazs^2,15 Hjem-IS Ice Screamers Kit Kat¹⁵ Maxibon Mövenpick Parlour Savory Smarties
Prepared and packaged food and snacks	Buitoni California Pizza Kitchen DiGiorno Herta Hot Pockets Lean Cuisine Libby's Lean Pockets Maggi Stouffer's Thomy Tombstone Uncle Tobys Winiary Wagner Yinlu Foods
Purina PetCare	Alpo Bakers Complete Beggin' Strips Beneful Bonio Dog Chow Fancy Feast Felix Friskies Frosty Paws ONE Winalot
Uncle Tobys	Cheerios¹ PLUS Weeties
Former brands and subsidiaries	Alcon Alfasigma Arrowhead Butterfinger Baby Ruth Chocolate Surpresa Deer Park Dreyer's¹⁵ Enviga Gale's Galderma Laboratories Cetaphil Epiduo Restylane Hoadley's Ice Mountain Jenny Craig Ozarka Peter's Chocolate Poland Spring Polly Waffle PowerBar Powwow Water Rowntree Mackintosh Violet Crumble Wonder Ball Zephyrhills

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¹ Currently manufactured by General Mills in the U.S. and Canada. Produced by Cereal Partners under the Nestlé brand elsewhere. ² Brand owned by General Mills; U.S. and Canadian production rights controlled by Nestlé under license. ³ U.S. production rights owned by The Hershey Company. ⁴ U.S. rights and production owned by the Smarties Candy Company with a different product. ⁵ U.S. rights and specific trade dress owned by Nestlé; rights elsewhere owned by Associated British Foods. ⁶ Produced by Cereal Partners, branded as Nestlé. ⁷ Produced by Cereal Partners and branded as Nestlé in the U.K. and Ireland. Produced by Post Foods elsewhere. ⁸ Philippine production rights owned by Alaska Milk Corporation. ⁹ Singaporean, Malaysian and Thai production rights owned by Fraser and Neave. ¹⁰ Used only in Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia. ¹¹ Used only in the Philippines. ¹² U.S. production rights owned by the Ferrara Candy Company. ¹³ NA rights and specific trade dress to all packaged coffee and other products under the Starbucks brand owned by Nestlé since 2019. ¹⁴ Brand owned by Mars, sold by Nestlé in Canada. ¹⁵ Produced by Froneri in the U.S. since 2020.