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Show Community Water at Pipe Spring? Superintendent John Hiscock is pleased to announce that restoration of water (low through the Spring Room in the historic Ripe Spring Fort (or Winsor Castle) at Pipe Spring National Monument, is planned by summer. To the best of our knowledge, springs have flowed from the base of the ridge at Winsor Point for thousands of years, noted Superintendent Hiscock. The springs provided water for 12 SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY MARCH 13, 2002 as the Spring Room in the lower building of the fort cooled the room where butter and cheese were produced for Mormon settlers, and temple builders. Spring water has continued to be used for a variety of purposes right up to the present. Shortly after the Pipe Spring Ranch was purchased by the Federal gov- ernment and designated a national monument in 1923, the Secretary of the Interior issued ancestral Indian (Anasazi) life an order partitioning the flow of and settlement in masonry all the springs in three parts - a pueblo structures, and for the third to the Kaibab Paiute Tribe, a third to a local cattlemans Kaibab Paiute who remain. The springs also motivated association, and a third to be Church of Jesus Christ of Latter retained on the Monument for Day Saints President Brigham park purposes. Later, the NaYoung to direct the building of a tional Park Service agreed to fortified ranch house at the site build and maintain a culinary - which came to be known as well and water system on the Winsor Castle after the first Kaibab Paiute Reservation in manager of the Pipe Spring exchange for retaining the d of spring flow Tribes Ranch, Anson P. Winsor. In fact, Winsor Castle was ac- on the Monument as well. Over tually built directly over the the past forty years, spring flow from the main spring gradually main spring at the site to provide a well watered refuge for diminished, and in the summer the Mormon pioneers in the of 1999 the spring beneath event of Navajo attack Over Winsor Castle stopped producg the years, water which flowed ing water. Two other features on the Monuthrough what came to be known ment continued to flow. Tunnel Spring, approximately 100 yards west of the fort, continued to produce the most water. In actuality, Tunnel Spring is a e horizontal well, hand dug by ranchers in 1904. West Cabin Spring, a natural seep one-thir- water-producin- man-mad- spring approximately 200 yards west of the fort also continued to flow as in the past. The decline in spring flow has resulted in a series of hydrological research projects aimed at increased understanding of the Pipe Spring groundwater aquifer. Hydrologists from the National Park Service and the United States Geological Survey currently theorize that the loss of water from the spring beneath Winsor Castle is simply due to a shift in underground Groundwater flow plumbing. in the immediate vicinity of Pipe Spring is largely controlled by the presence of the Sevier Fault. Movement along the fault may well have resulted in changes to cracks and fissures the ground-wate- r flows through and gradually diverted the groundwater away from the spring. There is-speculation that some, or all of the flow from the main spring has found its way into Tunnel Spring to the west. With the loss of the main spring, attention immediately turned to the condition of Tunnel Spring. The stability of this 120-folong hand dug horizontal well was known to be questionable. A mining engineering firm was hired to assess the situation. They reported that Tunnel Spring was in imminent danger of total collapse which would possibly leave the Monument and the Cattlemens Asso- ot tfTJk. Y? , t , - V a, V KV. H 7 -- & es r 4' ' t- - ' Former Superintendent C. Leonard Heaton (served from 1926 Spring Room, Winsor Castle. ciation essentially without water. Over the winter of 2000 2001, major stabilization of Tunnel Spring was conducted. The rickety 1904 tunnel was replaced with a reinforced concrete structure. At the mouth of the new Tunnel Spring, an apportionment vault was installed to divide the remaining flow of the Monuments springs in three parts. Another construction contract has been issued, and in less than a week a piping and pumping system will be put in place to of the total return spring flow to the Spring Room in Winsor Castle. The remaining d of the spring flow will continue to be delivered via pipe two-thir- ds one-thir- - 1963) in line to the cattlemens association. Superintendent Hiscock stated: The park decided that this action was essential to maintaining the historic setting of the fort, and adjacent ponds fed by the springs. Furthermore, restoring the flow through the fort, ponds, and associated riparian zones is critical to the birds, amphibians, mammals, plants and trees that flourish at this oasis on the dry Arizona Strip. Should anyone have questions regarding the project, Superintendent Hiscock invites your calls to (928)643-710letters to Superintendent, Pipe Spring National Monument, HC 65 Box 5, Fredonia, AZ 86022; or PISPSuperintendentNPS.GOV. 5; State of Utah seeks partners for business energy savings ZION TERMITE & PEST CONTROL For All Your Termite & Pest Control Needs! Quarterly Pest Control - Only $35 (Regularly $55) The recent energy crisis in that has now spread other parts of the country has energy .costs and supply problems to rise sharply. 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