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Post by grayghost on Jul 10, 2015 19:07:38 GMT
I have a creek on my property that is fed by a spring. I'm told the last time the creek was dry was in 1991. The spring is in a very small pond roughly 30' x 30' and 2' deep. Over the last few months the spring has pretty much stopped flowing.
The pond is on my neighbors property but have permission to do anything I want to try and get the spring flowing again.
Wondering whats the best thing to try first.
Would digging it out with a backhoe be OK or would that cause more problems?
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Post by paquebot on Jul 11, 2015 5:18:35 GMT
Best that you can do is make it rain. A spring is the outlet for the rain that falls and reaches a bedrock which prevents it from going deeper. If there's no water coming down to that layer, none can come out. There's also the chance that it broken through somewhere and now going into a deeper strata. Then it would dry up forever.
Martin
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Post by PNP Katahdins on Jul 13, 2015 19:50:45 GMT
Our springs and creek have pretty well dried up also. It's been dry here for at least three years. This year the pastures are getting barely enough rain to keep ahead of the sheep. We buy all our winter hay and shell corn and the neighbors are doing okay, thank goodness. The heavier rains seem to go south or north of us, but the bad stuff is avoiding us too.
Peg
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2015 22:12:51 GMT
Where are you grayghost, that it is so dry?
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Post by grayghost on Jul 29, 2015 3:21:48 GMT
Where are you grayghost, that it is so dry? Malvern AR I found where the spring came into the pond and dug around with a shovel. For the time being, its flowing again . |
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Post by oxankle on Jan 6, 2017 22:27:40 GMT
Gray; In OK where I was it was common practice to dig in and around a local spring--shovels, not machinces, to clean it out and keep it flowing. Silt, leavces, animals walking thru them seem to plug springs up when the flow slows down. Cleaning them helps.
My guess is that all the old springs are slowing down due to climate and man's alteration of the land---the aquifers are not being recharged at the rate they once were. A spring near here once powered a grist mill. Today the flow appears way too little for that.
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Post by Skandi on Jan 7, 2017 14:04:29 GMT
If a spring truely stops the reason will be lowered ground water, probably from water extraction. Rain may or may not recharge it, depending on the geology. Cleaning should reduce the pressure required for it to flow and help with your problem.
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