Peacock I, II, III conditions

[KKuersteiner]

Hi All,

I'm with the Florida Geological Survey, and we are currently working on a springshed delineation study in Middle Suwannee and Santa Fe. Part of our study has involved installing flow meters in our study springs; thus far we have meters in Lafayette Blue, Convict, Hornsby, and Peacock III. We installed a flow meter in Peacock III on January 31st (all the thanks Tara and Mark!!). Since then we have observed changes in water depth, speed, direction, temperature, and conductivity to suggest PIII changed from siphoning and sometimes outflowing pure groundwater, to siphoning some component of river water. What we can't tell from our flow meter data is from WHERE this river water is intruding. Historically, cave divers have provided some of the soundest observations on spring and cave systems so I would love to hear if any of you have observations during/around the period of February 28-March 13. In our data we see the most drastic drop in conductivity in PIII between March 5-13. Specifically, we would like to know if any of you can confirm or deny whether the river water intruded up Peacock run all the way to PIII, or if it took an alternate route(possibly via PI, and/or PII?). Apologies for the wall of text, and thank you all for your help!

[Ben M]

Maybe not as specific as you had hoped but the park was closed to diving 6-19 March due to flooding.

[tbone1004]

Kurt,
best option is to put out a formal request to the cave conservation groups.

NSS CDS-Michael Angelo Gagliardi: conservation@nsscds.org

North Florida Springs Alliance- Kelly Jessop: chair@northfloridaspringsalliance.org

If you submit a request to them, they will work with you to make sure you can get the information you need by coordinating with the divers.