And it’s unlike anything else in the world. So they’re large springs that pump, you know, more than 65 million gallons of water a day out of the aquifer and pump it into rivers and lakes. Of those, about 30 I think, 30 to 32, are first-magnitude. So now all the springs are between Orlando and Pensacola, and Florida has approximately 1,000 artesian springs throughout the state. And there used to be springs south of Orlando, but because of development and drainage of the Everglades and other water systems there’s no more springs south of Orlando. So it enables all these springs to form in the northern part of the state. How many springs are there, and why are there so many in Florida?ĬORRAL: Florida, north Florida, has what’s known as a karst geology.
GREEN: Florida springs primarily are in central and north Florida. I mean, you just feel this incredible rush of just great, great chemicals in your body releasing from this water that’s clean and clear and all around you. And whatever post traumatic stress disorder is, it’s the opposite. So if you’re out there in the summer, and you jump into one of these springs, it’s a jolt to the system. Because they’re colder than you’d expect from water in Florida. WMFE environmental reporter Amy Green talked with documentarian Oscar Corral.ĬORRAL: I think the first time anybody enters a spring, it’s kind of like a shock to the system.
That’s the message of the new documentary, Fellowship of the Springs, which examines the growing fragility of the greatest concentration of freshwater springs in the world.
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