Peacock Springs - Springing back....

[Rich]

Peacock's dynamics are little different than Madison. Since Madison is a high flow system it will clear out a little faster,and the basin is fairly representative of what you see in the cave.

Why is Peacock different? The Reader's Digest part of the whole story is a couple groups of cave divers couldn't play nice and used Peacock as their battleground. The net result was a cave diver felt they were endangered,and made a complaint to Tallahassee. To prevent closure of the park while the state determined if there was a safety issue,a line committee was installed to work in conjunction with park management to handle line issues,and check visibility minimum requirements to open the park.

Water conditions are being checked at Peacock frequently,and when certain indicators are present then a team will be sent in to check minimum visibility. I know people want to dive Peacock,and if we check years of past CDF threads,there is always a trend toward impatience of when Peacock will open when the water level is dropping. Every flooding event is unique,and Peacock will clear up at her own rate,nothing we can do to help it along.

Thanks for the background info, Kelly, so once again we only have ourselves to blame.....

Safe diving,

Rich

[Kelly Jessop]

Thanks for the background info, Kelly, so once again we only have ourselves to blame.....

Safe diving,

Rich

Rich
Look at it from a positive light. We came together and resolved the problem with something that was satisfactory to all parties,without having to have big brother make the decision for us.