At one time the water wheel operated an electric generator that produced power for the buildings and grounds of the Juniper Springs Recreational Area. From the pool, water flows east through a short flume that provides a head drop of about 5 ft to turn an undershot water wheel. On April 28, 1972, water depth graded irregularly from about 4 ft at the west end of the pool to about 20 ft at the east end. Other than over the cavities, the average depth of the pool at that time was about 12 ft. The maximum water depths over the floors of the cavities were 16.1, 16.6 and 17.8 ft on April 4, 1946.
The bottom of the pool is mostly sandy, and according toįerguson and others (1947), inflow to the pool is from three cavities in the pool bottom. The pool is enclosed by a rock and concrete retaining wall in which is a controlled outlet at the north-east edge of the pool.
The springs are the headwaters of Juniper Creek, which meanders to Lake George in the St. The springs, in a semitropical wooded setting, form an oblong pool, elongate east, 135 ft long and 80 ft wide.
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