Schuylkill Dam Series: DUMP NO WASTE Mystery Cache
FairmountWaterWorks: Since the road has reopened to the condos, the area is getting too muggly for this cache type. Kudos to those who did this puzzle! It was fun while it lasted.
Schuylkill Dam Series: DUMP NO WASTE
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The Schuylkill Dam Series was launched for the 200th anniversary of the Schuylkill Navigation System, an amazing engineering feat built 1816-1828 and utilized throughout the 19th century. The clues will lead you on a short loop spur off the SRT to a 16-oz water bottle filled with Schuylkill River animals. Water-themed trade items are especially welcome!
Native Schuylkill River animals in this cache:
largemouth bass
smallmouth bass
pumpkinseed sunfish
channel catfish
box turtle
river otter
great blue heron
Catfish Dam is #28 in the historic Schuylkill Navigation system. Its ruins can be seen on both sides of the river. Lock 63 and the filled-in canal are on the other side. Imagine what this area was like when a dam spanned and raised the river for coal-laden barges, and provided water power to factories in this floodplain.
Now for your puzzle.
First you're looking for a well-known song, by a singer whose first name is part of the name of the dam. At the coordinates, atop the East abutment, look across the river for the first word of the song title. The second word of the song title may be rolling by soon, if it isn't there already.
Next, use the internet to solve that song's lyrical puzzle:
Why can't we live in _______
_______ out on the edge of darkness...
Two five-letter words are missing from that sequence. Rearrange their ten letters for a helpful three-word phrase. The middle word will be "is." "_ _ _ _ IS _ _ _ _"
Now for a stroll upriver. The path is easy, the view reflective. Keep going past where the buildings end.
Use your puzzle answer to identify a marker between the path and the river. (There have been other such markers near your route, but this is the first one after the buildings end.) Finally, backtrack 20-25 paces or 5 GPS points south. The cache is there.
(Dog walkers, please pick up the poo or it will end up in our drinking water source. Yes, the Schuylkill supplies half of Philadelphia, as well as Pottstown, Phoenixville, and Norristown. Thanks!)
CONGRATS TO FORBEZ AND PEZGIRL22 FOR FIRST TO FIND
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(Decrypt)
chmmyr erfhyg ba fgbezjngre znaubyr pbire