Standing Springs EarthCache EarthCache
Hidden : 6/1/2016
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:


Since this is an EarthCache, which has No container to find or log to sign, You MUST send me the answers in a message or email through geocaching. Do NOT put your answers in your log.

TO QUALIFY TO LOG THIS CACHE, DO or ANSWER at least ONE of the Following, OR post a Photo at the location:
ALSO, While you do not have to await a response from me, Please try to send your answers the same day as your log, but in no case later than 7 days past your log entry to avoid deletion of your find log.

1. Spings are often classified by the volume of the water they discharge. The largest springs are called "first-magnitude". TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK THE MAGNITUDE OF THIS  SPRING WOULD BE ACCORDING TO THE FOLLOWING SCALE. ________
0 Magnitude - no flow (sites of past/historic flow)
1st Magnitude - 100 cubic feet per second (cfs)
2nd Magnitude - 10-100 cfs
3rd Magnitude - 1-10 cfs
4th Magnitude - 100 gal/min (gallons per minute) - 1 cfs (448 gal/min)
5th Magnitude - 10 to 100 gal/min
6th Magnitude - 1 to 10 gal/min
7th Magnitude - 1 pint to 1 gal/min
8th Magnitude - Less than 1 pint/min

2. Does the water have any odor? _________

3. After reading the information above, What type of spring do you think this is, Artesian or Non-Artesian?

4. What is the structure behind the monument? (NOT the bench)_________.

5. While not required, a photo of you (and your GPS if possible) is always appreciated, And Can Be Used In Place Of Your Answer(s) As Proof Of Your Visit.
PLEASE PARK in the parking lot below the cemetery, near the activity fields.
(N 34 43.580, W 082 17.326). THERE IS A SIGN LEADING TO THE SPRING.
I originally had a traditional cache located here (which is now archived). You may log this EarthCache even if you logged the traditional. In April, 2011, I noticed the sign for the springs while at Standing Springs Baptist Church for a soccer game our granddaughter (who is in the accompanying photo) was playing in. We went down to see the spring and liked it. So, I asked for and was granted the OK to place a cache at this nice location. Since the original is now archived, I have established this as an EarthCache.
Permission was granted by Steve of the Standing Springs Baptist Church


THIS GEOCACHE IS LOCATED AT A NATURAL SPRING THAT HAS BEEN HERE FOR OVER 200 YEARS!

The monument reads:
"THIRTY FEET DIRECTLY BEHIND
THIS MONUMENT IS THE
ORIGINAL STANDING SPRING
FROM WHICH THIS COMMUNITY
AND STANDING SPRINGS BAPTIST
CHURCH DERIVED THEIR NAMES.
THE CHURCH WAS ORGANIZED
IN OCTOBER 1818.

THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED
OCTOBER 14, 2001 IN RECOGNITION
OF THE CHURCH'S 183RD
ANNIVERSARY.

PAT PERRY, PASTOR"


You should park in the main parking lot near the activity fields.
You will see a sign directing you to the spring and monument "780 Feet" away.
The path (which is a dirt path with leaves on it - watch out for hidden roots) will take you down to the spring, which is a slow-flowing body of water, sometimes partly covered with duckweed. If you go right down by it you can see the water welling up into it from the ground.
NOTE, There is a Creek running near the spring, which the spring empties into. We are concerned with the spring itself, nearest the monument.
PLEASE DO NOT SEARCH SUNDAY MORNINGS

A SPRING is any natural situation where water flows from an aquifer to the Earth's surface.
A spring may be the result of karst topography where surface water has infiltrated the Earth's surface (recharge area), becoming part of the area groundwater. The groundwater then travels through a network of cracks and fissures. The water eventually emerges from below the surface, in the form of a karst spring.
The forcing of the spring to the surface can be the result of a confined aquifer in which the recharge area of the spring water table rests at a higher elevation than that of the outlet. Spring water forced to the surface by elevated sources are Artesian springs. This is possible even if the outlet is in the form of a 300-foot-deep cave. In this case the cave is used like a hose by the higher elevated recharge area of groundwater to exit through the lower elevation opening.
Non-Artesian springs may simply flow from a higher elevation through the earth to a lower elevation and exit in the form of a spring, using the ground like a drainage pipe.
The action of the groundwater continually dissolves permeable bedrock such as limestone and dolomite, creating vast cave systems. This information was found in an excerpt at wikipedia

PLEASE DO NOT SEARCH SUNDAY MORNINGS

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