Winona Pipeline III Traditional Cache
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Since I had to archieve the original Winona Pipeline and I really wanted to keep both pieces of history intact - I moved the cache sight about 1 mile east of the original location and now moving it again due to a purple painted gate. Anyway, You are now looking for a baby soda bottle tube. The reason I brought you here is twofold:
1) This is a place where the Winona Pipeline comes through heading to Little Rock's Ozark Point Water Treatment Plant. It originates at Lake Winona, a 1.9 sq. mile scenic reservoir, about 22 to 23 miles away from this point. Lake Winona was built in 1936 as the primary source of raw water for the then Little Rock Water Works. The first water flowed through these pipes on April 17, 1938. The pipeline is a 39" diameter gravity flow concrete pipe that still today provides 35% of Central Arkansas Water's daily requirements. In other words - NO PUMPS or Electricity. If you continue out west towards Paron on Kanis Road - every once in a while you'll notice signs showing where the underground pipeline crosses the road.
2) Where you find this cache - it is still located on the old roadbed of a shortline railroad track (running east to west) that existed from the late 1800's through the early 1920's. Along it's route going out into northern Saline County were many logging camps. This railroad and logging camps supplied a majority of the timber that built Little Rock, Arkansas.
Just wanted to throw some history your way!
Enjoy the cache!
Congrats to berryold and DadRinger on their joint First-toFind!!
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