What's the story behind the blue pond at Franklin Parker?
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I've likely been to that one (off 532, right?). They dug the sand out to build dikes or use it for something else. Therefore it is like any gravel pit you see that was man made. It is really the upper ground water level they have reached by their digging.
Why the blue color? I'm not sure without researching it, but it may be the clean bottom helping provide some reflection for the suns rays.
Why the blue color? I'm not sure without researching it, but it may be the clean bottom helping provide some reflection for the suns rays.
The water is pure with very little vegetable matter or tannins in it,no mud on bottom which is why many barrens streams appear black or reddish if the bottom is sandy and the water full of tannins. Blue comes from the fact that blue light scatters more easily then other colors of the spectrum because the wave length is shorter,this is why the sky is blue and the water is just reflecting the color of the sky.The ponds will not be blue when the sky is nasty.
Whoops,just read Spung mans post.Algae? Really? I know algae can make some ponds green and so can suspended clay particles such as the Buffalo River with it's greenish blue water from suspended clay.
Come on now? We all know the Leeds Devil lives at the bottom of the blue holes and they are blue because that's how he likes it. Don't let all that science crap get in the way of the truth.
Yes that's the one. It's not far from 532 in the Franklin Parker Preserve. I saw it and wondered if the color was due to purity or pollutants. It sure looked clear.
No limestone in this neck o' the woods. One theory I always heard was a lack of nutrients limiting growth of algae and micro-organizms. Look at an aerial photo of sand pits and newer ones will tend to be sky-blue.
I think the newer ones are sky blue from blue light being scattered by the suspended silica particles in the water whereas the older ones have less suspended matter in them but yes I"ve noticed that as well and it's apparent on a sunny day on the ground as well. The newer lakes down here in haleyville look sky blue when driving past them and they are still being used today .A newer hole also burns your eyes when you swim in it.I have heard it's from Hydrochloric acid they use to clean the sand.I never get that burn from swimming in a hole thats been abandoned for awhile.
we used to refer to the green colored ones as "dioxyn ponds". Growing up near Ciba Geigy it paid to be cautious.
The chemical plant in Toms River. Good read: https://www.amazon.com/Toms-River-S...MIgsKVrZufhAMVi25HAR0caQBLEAQYASABEgIc9vD_BwE
Ahhh! The Far North! I don't circulate much that far up.72 is normally my northern boundary though i occasionally will venture to within sight of lakehurst but it's been years since I"ve been up there.