This cache is part of the “GF125 Geocoin Challenge!” Find all 18 caches, fill in the code words on your “passport” and turn it in to the Grand Forks Visitor Centre for a trackable geocoin! Passports are available at the Grand Forks Visitor Centre, or here: https://discovergrandforks.ca/geocoin2022/
Visitor Centre Hours:
Tues to Fri 10 to 4
Sat 10 to 3
Closed all Stats
All caches placed with permission where required.
As always when out in the forests (as some caches will be placed on trails) please watch for wild animals such as Bears, Snakes, and Cougars.
Have fun, and enjoy all the Grand Forks area has to offer! ☺️
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Below info provided to Scottycat from: Jonathan Kalmakoff
As you know, the Doukhobors primarily obtained their irrigation water supply from July Creek, then pipelined it with wood stave along the old GNR rail bed up to Saddle River, the main reservoir, from which it was gravity distributed throughout Fruktova. But they also tapped into whatever springs along the way that they could. This is one of them. I have it all documented on my map.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1Twp1Z8n-XkC_l-X_r7mtkLJ4TN8
So small reservoirs like this - often round pipe or wooden square box (the older ones) was used to create to pool water from a natural spring and create enough of a small reservoir to direct the water into a small trunk pipeline to joint it to the main pipeline.
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*This cache is placed before the actual Reservoir, but you may walk further if you'd like to check it out, it's a cement box that you can see under the water level, maybe 5 feet depth by 6 and about 20 feet long rectangle.