🚀 go-pugleaf

One caution: be gentle. I've known (back in North Carolina where I
grew up) of people who lost a spring by digging too much up. Simple
solution is to put a wooden box and cover as far up hill as you can get
it, take water out at that level with a pipe and downhill to a tank.
Make sure to leave some water for the wildlife (we always used to
make sure we had a salamander in our springs; story was that if the
spring wasn't "lived in" it would grow algae and what not and eventually
the pores/cracks would fill in and the water would quit being reliable
and potable.)  I own property with a boxed spring myself; that's how
it's handled in my case.

This may be overly romantic, but I never heard of anyone losing the use
of the spring who did it this way. I did hear of a few people who used
machinery to dig up spring areas or did a lot of earth moving, and lost
their spring and had to drill wells to get the water.