Little River

[jpdiver]

I dove Little River last Sunday. The vis was way down. 20' or so in the main tunnel. I went up the Small Creek Tunnel which was worse. It's taking a long time to clear from the flooding

[WEPIV]

Yes, I dove it late last week too and found the vis to be around 30 feet or so depending on where you were in the system.
I just figure it is the cave system trying to clean out all of the debris from the reverse flow of recent months.
It will be a great day when it returns to the normal crystal clear beautiful water!
(However, I also had the bad thought that what if -- due to our decades of mistreating and not appreciating our water -- this will be how the vis always is or worse....)

[jeandiver]

Well , it looks like the Aquifer is getting a good charging up today ...
Lots of rain around our area.

Jean

[Kelly Jessop]

Last time we had similar conditions- a long drought followed by a flood,it took Little River a year to clear. Rain is great,but we need above average rain fall for a long period of time to have an impact.

[amphipod06]

Last time we had similar conditions- a long drought followed by a flood,it took Little River a year to clear. Rain is great,but we need above average rain fall for a long period of time to have an impact.

sigh....I remember when Little River was as clear as Ginnie and it pumped like crazy....

Dive safe,

Celia

[Gary]

Some of the nasty water at little river is coming out of a crack near the source vents at end of main line, out of the small creek trib, and likely several other spots. Something nasty is dead and growing in the way back past the sources. I looked no farther - there is a limit to my curiosity.

There still seems to be clear water at the vents and the deep section so the traditional clear water sources seem OK - it's just they don't have the pressure and flow right now to supply the system with clear water. This seems very similar to several years ago and that cleared up eventually.

[Cantey]

I dove LR about 2 weeks ago and vis was near 50ft...weird.

[timle]

I dove Little River on July 3rd and it was flowing pretty hard. Viz was not great but it was fine on the main line well into the Florida room.

[amphipod06]

Some of the nasty water at little river is coming out of a crack near the source vents at end of main line, out of the small creek trib, and likely several other spots. Something nasty is dead and growing in the way back past the sources. I looked no farther - there is a limit to my curiosity.

the fires of Mordor must be burning again....

Interesting, it has been on and off with LR for a couple (more) of years now, maybe some hefty rains will clear it up and bring it back to what it used to be 10 years ago...

Dive safe,

Celia

[Cantey]

anyone know what's causing this? has there been a lot of rain in the area lately? its been raining for 2 weeks straight up here in Tally.