Springs

[brownieman]

Another thread was talking about spring ouput, aqifers, etc.

I do remember a pretty large spring just turn milky white and flowed that clolor for several months.

It was a spring that flowed from the base of a bluff like welch...only thing I could figure is down in the system somewhere there was a limestone layer that had collasped, crumbled slowly, something along those lines ?

Any thoughts on that or even any interest? Just the only time I have seen something like that...no change in anything but water color.

later on

[eric1978]

That would be my guess. Maybe some minerals were being scoured out from some freshly exposed underground cavity. Possibly calcium?

[Wayne SW/MO]

I think your theory is a good one.

[Gene K]

Sounds reasonable to me, brownie. Once upon a time, about a month after I had a well drilled, the water suddenly became milky and stayed that way for months. Had to put a filtration thingy in. And just after that, all of a sudden it was clear and pure again. Had to be some portion of the uncased (albeit small) limestone falling apart.

[Guest]

When the water is high, cave spring (downstream of akers) has that milky white look to it.