Update 2023-05-01: Alapaha Swallets Dye Trace Project 2016-10-01.
Tom Greenhalgh started putting the dye in the Dead River Swallet about 11:06 this morning,
with Harley Means observing in this picture, plus a drone also taking pictures.
See below for where to look for the dye coming back up in the next few days.
If you see it, please take a water sample for SRWMD. Continue reading
Alapaha Dye Test
Where to look for the dye coming back up.
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Dead River
Where to look for the dye coming back up.
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You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
Update 2016-06-22: Dye test into the Dead River Sink: it came back up several days later and eighteen river miles south, in the Alapaha River Rise and Holton Bluff Spring, both on the Suwannee River.
The Alapaha River disappears underground in dry seasons,
and nobody has ever known where it comes back up.
Soon, we will know.
Green Publishing, 16 June 2016, Dye test held for river basins,
The Florida Geological Survey will be conducing a dye test for the Suwannee River Water Management District in the Upper Suwannee/Alapaha River basins later this month. They will introduce dye into the Dead River Swallet (swallets are sinkholes that capture flow) and a swallet that is located on privately owned land. They will also have sampling devices setup at Continue reading
Sunday morning May 15th 2016, nine and more environmental organizations showed
U.S. Congress member Ted Yoho FL-03 and a representative from Sen. Bill Nelson
saw sinkholes much closer to Sabal Trail’s proposed drill path under the Suwannee River than the pipeline company told FERC, along with two reports by local practicing geologists explaining how fissures and caverns underground extend the problem far past the artificial distance of effects Sabal Trail claimed.
Update 2016-05-17: Thomas Lynn reported in the Suwannee Democrat and Valdosta Daily Times.
Both Rep. Yoho and Suwannee River Water Management District Executive Director Noah Valenstein said at the end of the expedition that Continue reading
Boating not prudent.
The Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline route went through
this area, and the new route is only slightly to the north.
There are springs all over this area.
The same karst limestone underlies the Withlacoochee River
in Georgia, where the river already leaks into the aquifer north
of Valdosta.
A pipeline anywhere in the karst limestone containing the
Floridan Aquifer is a very bad idea.
Profit for Sabal Trail, FPL, or Spectra Energy is no excuse for
risking our drinking water.
SRWMD PR 4 December 2014, Falmouth dye trace reveals unknown connectivity,
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LIVE OAK, FL, December 4, 2014 — The District and Florida Geological Survey introduced dye into Falmouth Spring On September 4th, in hopes of learning which other springs were connected to the known Falmouth Cathedral Cave System. Two days after the dye was release the dye appeared in two springs previously not known to be connected, Ellaville and Suwannacoochee.
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Deanna Mericle posted on facebook 11 November 2014,
Chris and I hiked the riverbed of the Alapaha River and found the other sink!
Other as in different from the Dead River Sink. Continue reading
