Emerges from the contact between the St. Joe Formation and the Boone Formation

Joint controlled cave at copperhead spring extends back more than 100m

The automatic samplers and data recorders are stored in the box on the platform.

Because of the big range in discharge here, the v-notch weir has a rectangular flow zone at the top, making it a compound weir.

The geologic contact at the base of the Boone suggests that the spring originated as a hypogenic karst feature.

Maximum flow has completely overtopped the entire weir system.

Viewed from the side of the v-notch, the flow breaks free of the weir with a discharge of approximately 0.5 cubic feet per second.

The SEW has multiple tipping bucket rain gages, wind speed and directions tools, solar radiation monitors, and soil moisture monitoring, allowing water budget calculation.

Bovine beauties hang out near the entrance to the springs, ever vigilant to find a way into the source, where the water is always sweetest.