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This spring is about 1,000 feet from the north line and 2,100 feet from the west line of sec.32, at the head of a small run about 100 feet S. of the Fish Hospital, a hole in a sharp bend of the Weeki Wachee River 1,000 feet upstream from State Hwy 597 bridge. The spring is an almost perfectly cylindrical pipe about 8 feet in diameter and 40 feet deep. Water from the vigorous boil flows north through a channel about 3 feet wide and half a foot deep. The channel empties into the Weeki Wachee River at a large hole 150 feet in diameter and 118 feet deep known as the Fish Hospital. The flow was about 1.5 cfs; on May 22, 1962. The spring is not used.
Date | Submitter | Visbility | Remarks |
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Description | Type | Date | Author | Remarks |
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System | Depth | Cave | Cavern | OW | Last Report | Distance (mi) |
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Buford Spring | 167 | True | True | False | 10/1/2024 | 7.4 |
Eagle's Nest | 315 | True | False | False | 3/14/2024 | 2 |
Lost 40 | 165 | True | False | False | 7/15/2023 | 5.1 |
Hospital Hole | 143 | False | True | True | 4/30/2023 | 0.1 |
Warm Springs | 140 | False | True | False | 11/1/2022 | 7.5 |
Ward's Sink | 198 | True | True | True | 9/30/2022 | 10.2 |
Arch Sink | 197 | True | True | False | 7/18/2021 | 7.8 |
Bulldozer Sink | 60 | False | True | True | 3/22/2020 | 0.2 |
Diepolder III | 300 | True | False | False | 5/27/2017 | 5.9 |
Little Gator Siphon | 180 | True | False | False | 1/3/2015 | 7.5 |
Twin Dees | 335 | True | False | False | 8/3/2013 | 3 |
Isabella Spring | 110 | True | False | False | 5/22/2013 | 9.6 |
Weeki Wachee Spring | 407 | True | False | True | 4/28/2012 | 3.3 |
Diepolder II | 360 | True | False | False | 12/23/2010 | 5.9 |
Gator Spring | 192 | True | False | False | 12/6/2009 | 2.3 |
Blind Spring | 180 | True | True | False | 11/29/2009 | 8.8 |
Free Ride Cave | 120 | True | False | False | 10/10/2009 | 9.6 |
Double Keyhole | 230 | True | False | False | 1/11/2009 | 8.5 |
Horseshoe Spring | True | True | False | 1/10/2009 | 10 | |
Little Salt Spring | 240 | True | False | False | 9/23/2008 | 1.1 |
Bobhill Springs | False | False | False | 12/29/2007 | 6.7 | |
Jewfish Sink | 200 | True | False | False | 9/2/2007 | 8.6 |
The Jewel | 315 | True | True | False | 6/2/2006 | 8.9 |
Mud Spring | 210 | True | True | False | 11/20/2005 | 1.1 |
Nursery Sink | 214 | True | False | False | 4.7 | |
Mary's Sink | 58 | True | False | True | 5 | |
Garden World Sink | 250 | True | False | False | 8.7 | |
Willow Sink | True | False | False | 5.7 | ||
Jenkins Creek | 50 | True | False | False | 0.8 | |
Joe's Sink | 60 | True | False | True | 5 | |
Coffee Sink | False | False | False | 10.1 | ||
Snook Spring | 120 | True | False | False | 9.5 | |
Star Sun Spring | 120 | True | False | False | 9.6 | |
Snake Eyes | False | False | False | 2.2 | ||
Wolf Sink | False | False | False | 5 |