![]() These mounds are believed to have been built or accumulated by Indians that once lived in the area. The spring is the site of pre-Columbian Native American habitation, evidenced by several large shell mounds on the land around the spring. The spring run is heavily used and has suffered damage from the boat traffic and recreational use. The water flows eastward to Lake George down a run 200 or more feet wide. The pool forms a wide run that flows about 0.5 miles to Lake George, one of the chain of lakes along the St. ![]() A small stream also feeds the spring run from the southwest and has numerous small spring boils in its bed. Other flow is from numerous sand boils in the bottom of the spring run several hundred feet downstream from the head of the springs. The second and larger spring is about 60 feet from shore in the left center of the pool. Water flowing from the Natural Well creates a visible slick at the surface and is very clear and blue. It is a cylindrical shaft, 15 feet in diameter, 40 feet deep. One spring, called the "Natural Well," is in the SW corner of the overall pool. An underwater cave system at Silver Glen Springs has been mapped by divers. Modified banks, a fence, and concrete walls frame the spring into a rough square. The water is blue and very clear except when stirred up by swimmers. Striped bass and tilapia may be seen in the spring in large numbers, paying little heed to swimmers and divers. Water flows strongly up and out of the vents, "blowing" snail shells, sand, and fish that congregate near the openings. While the general spring pool is 5-7 feet deep, the bottom funnels down to the limestone openings about 20 feet deep. The pool bottom around the spring is covered in eel grass. The force of the flow from the openings causes a strong boil at the water surface in the north-central part of the pool. Two main spring openings create a large pool about 250 feet across. It has a semicircular pool bounded by semitropical forest at the base of the sand hills of the Ocala National Forest to the west. Silver Glen Springs is a 1st magnitude spring. Lake George is about 3,000 feet downstream (east) from the pool. The spring pool is located in Marion County with the spring run entering into Lake County about 500 feet east of the pool. To reach it drive north 6 miles from SR-40 on SR-19 turn east onto a paved road and continue 0.3 mile to the spring. (Photo: Travis Pardee) Projection missed by more than 13 feetĪs we begin May, here is a look at what happened at Lake Mead in April.Silver Glen Springs is 9 miles northwest of Astor. A large boat re-emerges from Lake Mead as lake levels continue to drop. A speedboat remains vertical and almost on dry land at Lake Mead. Sunken speedboat now points skyward after Lake Mead water level drops. The well-known vertical speedboat at Lake Mead is now surrounded by water after the lake rose four feet in May, 2023. As the water level continued to drop not only did the boat stay vertical, firmly stuck in the now hardened mud, it became surrounded by large plants, creating an other-worldly sight. By June 2022 the boat was almost out of the water. The emergence of the speedboat was first documented in May 2022 by Travis Pardee and his children swimming around the hull jutting out of the water. ![]() Good news for Lake Mead as water level set to rise thanks to healthy snowpack Monolith speedboat submerging againīecause of the rapid rise of the water level, the sunken speedboat described as the ‘Monolith of Lake Mead’ is now surrounded by the murky green water in a once-obscure cove.
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