Has anyone been in Emerald or Clear Cut in past few days and have a conditions report to share?
Thanks in advance.
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Conditions at Emerald / Clear Cut?
Has anyone been in Emerald or Clear Cut in past few days and have a conditions report to share?
Thanks in advance.
supposedly indian is blown, so i would imagine emerald isn't much better
We didn't look, but with the amount of rain in the last week, with more rain coming today and tomorrow- I wouldn't expect that it's any good.
Yeah, I've watched that section of Leon/Wakulla go under quick with a couple hours of good rain, but that was when there was almost no flow in that section of the system. Any experience with how the flow has been up there the past few weeks?
Thanks. Always hopeful for crap basin with clear cave further in, but that might be a pipe dream at moment.
It has been a very easy swim upstream and almost negligible syphon downstream from Emerald the past two weeks. I would say similar to the low flow experienced in JB recently, maybe less. But definitely a slight flow.
The biggest problem is how many direct points of entry into the system there are... than and the fact that half of the runoff from Tallahassee enters the system... and there's ALOT of runoff at the moment.
Indian on Saturday was not so nice in the front, we went downstream only, the entrance was 3 foot at best down to 80 feet, improved to 10 through the mud tunnel and improved to 50' in the large rooms, but not the usual. I understand it was fine a few hundred feet into the upstream.
Indian is usually the last to go bad in the area. The basin can turn to crap, and it can be bad all the way to the tee, but upstream will be fine. I would expect everything else to be blown by tomorrow.
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Upstream Indian was the best viz I have ever seen in a cave (Including Ginnie/Peacock/Cow when they're good) on Saturday. Dark water was seeping in along the cracks in the floor as we were approaching the T.Originally Posted by OFG-1
That sounds about right, James. If it goes under, it will lag the other systems by 10 or so days.
"Have you ever noticed
When you're feeling really good
There's always a pigeon
That'll come shiat on your hood?" John Prine 4-7-2020
"Into the blue again; in the silent water
Under the rocks, and stones; there is water underground" Talking Heads
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