Bubble-up & Geneva Cooling Ponds

[AnglinAngel]

If Geneva is no longer making steel & operating, where does the water come from that feeds the cooling ponds & eventually runs out the bubble-up? I'm just curious and wondered if there's an underground pipe from somewhere in Lindon, Pl Grove or Orem and that the water is actually mountain run off or what?
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[Coldfooter]

Sorry I cant rememberexactly but as I recall its either Spring or deep Well..
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[cat_man]

Coldfooter is right, it's either a spring or two, or wells that they have dug. I know that Geneva owns water rights that will probably be sold once they get the rest of their buyout worked out. I wonder if at that point the water will be directed elsewhere and never make it to the lake after that. At any rate, that will be a few years away even if it does happen. P.S. There are tons of fish in the lower cooling ponds next to the lake. It's chuck full of carp, and i know when I was a (dumb) kid, like 12 years old, we would catch white bass and bullheads off the bank at the bubble-up and run and toss them over into the ponds too, trying to establish a population of them in there. They probably all died, but ya never know. Now THAT is somewhere that I wouldn't eat the fish from![]
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[iconoclasticPaul]

Hey Earthly AnglinAngel, []

If you would drive to the first cooling pond after passing Lindon harbor, stop your car, and go to the southeast corner of the 1st section of the pond, you will see the water coming into it. Then look on the other side of the road where there is a culvert, you will see a small stream coming down. This stream never runs dry, I am not sure if it is a underground spring or it's a pumped up groundwater for the steel. This is a mystery because the steel is shut down and yet the water runs.

I do know there are hundreds of carp slathering about inside the ponds as I saw it during one draw-down one fall day over a year ago, and the stream water was running into the pond keeping those carp alive... I have never seen so many like that in there, it's quite an ugly sight to behold.

I mentioned this pond to Mark,(owner of Lindon Harbor) and told him if he could buy the land around the pond, he could use it as a giant bass pond because of all that vegetation such as bullrushes, reeds etc. There is land access to the pond from his harbor. He now got some ideas... who knows.
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