Peacock is closed to diving as of today July 10, 2013 due to high water and tannic intrusion.
Jim Wyatt
NFSA
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Peacock is closed to diving as of today July 10, 2013 due to high water and tannic intrusion.
Jim Wyatt
NFSA
Oh great, and with this storm coming right over the state it won't help the cause much eh?
For you guys that live up there and have more experience in the area, when do you expect things to clear up and what are the chances of other systems like Ginnie being affected by it too?
Ginnie unlikely to be effected because this isn't just localized flooding,but rivers elevating from rain to the north. When will Madison,Peacock etc clear? All depends when the river levels drop,when the rain stops in South GA,and how fast it will clear once the levels do drop.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pavão
Ginnie will be fine ... I expect the Millpond caves will be fine too.
JB turned to milk last weekend, not sure how it is now.
whole,2%,1%,or chocolate?Quote:
Originally Posted by SuPrBuGmAn
No idea, had it been beer, I'd be more interested in investigating
Any status update for Peacock? I'm headed down end of the week & while I love Ginnie, diversity with students is always nice.
Still closed and South Georgia still getting a lot of rain.
What kind of students are you bringing? What are you teaching?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dori
Fwiw, river water had intruded up to the canoe launch at Manatee Springs yesterday. But the head spring was clear, and the flow was way down.
Any update on JB
JB was fine last Sunday.
I was at JB on Thurs. night/Fri. morning. Flow is REALLY high, vis is great.
Actually flow is back to normalQuote:
Originally Posted by MacLeod
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Last year I was starting to get worried as the flow was almost nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kelly Jessop
It's not quite back up to what I consider "normal" for JB...
JB is one really big reason I bought a scooter
Normal JB is when doing a swim dive on well pumped 104s,you might make it to the first T. Carrying a stage means you will go 10ft more with the additional drag.
It wasn't quite that bad, but you will loose a lot of skin off your fingertips.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kelly Jessop
Some of us are going to have to learn how to swim all over again if these rains keep up. The rains we have seen this summer are the "normal" Florida. Blown out caves will adapt to the rains and start pumping like the good old days. Hopefully flushing the crap out at the same time and bring back some cobalt blue water.....Ah, dreaming again???
The one cave I've never swam... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kelly Jessop
Safe diving,
Rich
Yeah, but I like the dream, add some of the dead springs returning and I'd toast to that.Quote:
Originally Posted by fno
It wasn't that bad this weekend. You can pretty much avoid the flow up until the second breakdown. It's bad from there to the first T. Edd says it's up significantly in just the last few days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kelly Jessop
I think it's a dream many of us have.Quote:
Originally Posted by a64pilot
I can remember having my scooter on 9 in that section and still having to kick. Around 2007.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greenwood_60
I think you would have liked downstream Hole in the Wall on the 5th. The vis was like air.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulmal
Yes, but what scooter did you have back then? :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by Slüdge
Vespa.Quote:
Originally Posted by FW
Chris Rouse's DV-100. I'd call it average to a little above average in speed - about the same as my current UV-26.Quote:
Originally Posted by FW
I remember 1998 being the year we had the flood at Peacock that covered the paved road. The aquifer that supplied Jackson Blue was pumping so hard that it was a miracle if you made it to the second breakdown. I remember one dive trying to go past the second breakdown with a hot DV3X,and it just shuddered,and there was no forward movement on speed 9. I tried to use swimming,pulling etc,but I was not making any real positive gains. Lesson learned-never,ever get off the trigger with the scooter in front of you (should have done a crazy Ivan),that scooter caught the flow,and smacked me right in the face. If you pull up my hairline on my forehead you will see ANKET imprinted on my forehead :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Slüdge
What is this "hairline on the forehead" you speak of?
Called bangsQuote:
Originally Posted by Slüdge
Since this is the Peacock Closed Thread, any word on when Peacock might be open again? I see the river in going down in Luraville gage
Line committee members from the NFSA went there Tuesday and reported that dark tannic water was still coming out of the cave at P1. Hopefully it will clear up soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by curtschu
At least it is coming out :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Wyatt
Here's orange grove and P1 today.
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Hard to tell but am I seeing the water at OG as clear but P1 is tannic?
Optical illusion. Both are pretty tannic. Not as bad as I had suspected though. I expected coffee and saw it was light iced tea. If you've got a little car you're gonna hope the water on the park roads recedes as quickly as the spring water clears.
There is surface communication between OG and Cisteen,and this is tannic water.Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Hat Jef