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i’m lost

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going, going…………….soon to be archived if not adopted.

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all i can say is, see above listing

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freshman math sent to hardin family

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just a preference but……………

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i would prefer that you have solved the puzzle cache before adopting it. local cachers only please.

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thanks. i’ll have to fix that

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saw 1 yesterday and 1 again today at baird creek

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I just redid “The Lock Box”. Released 2 new keys. “The Key #1” and “The Key #2”. I posted pics with the entries. now i’m being flooded by people logging that they “Discovered in the gallery”. What is this? they discovered a picture of my tb? I don’t like it. When did this start? i haven’t even released 1 yet.

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i have had the same problem lately. sounds mean but i added a “log will be deleted if answers not recieved” to my cache pages. and so far it has had no effect. still getting no answers with the found logs. whats really sad is when an upper level wga member with 10-15 ec’s that they own themselves doesn’t send the answers to recently “found” ec’s that i own. what’s the use of continueing?

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I Know that the gods that be are changing the rules trying to better the whole show. But are the gods always right? I see EarthCaches taking the same road as webcam caches and virtuals. What a shame. Webcam caches were just fun to do. A lot of virtuals involved historic sites. Way to cool. Earthcaches gave me a whole new hobby. Loved them. I’d go way out of my way to get an EC. Looks like those days are also coming to an end. How many traditionals can a person do, looking in guard rails and stop signs, before becoming bored and quitting the whole show. just saying

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iatcc’s are just regular ecs that go through the regular bull………….Plus ………..have to be okayed by iatcc before you change the name thats all

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iatcc. nothing special. nothing different. just helps advertise the trail

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there ya go 3 ECs for somebody to work on. if you want more ……..ask. i have more. they aren’t doing me any good. go ahead and plagiaize. all the time writing them up, doing the homework, gas to the site to get coords, wear and tear on the car………………it just aint worth the trouble. spent 4 hrs on one cache today to be shut down at the last step. what a wasted of a day.

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or this

Ponds:
Both detention and retention ponds aid in the reduction of stormwater runoff and in the improvement of water quality. Although the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, there are great differences between the two.

Retention Ponds:
Retention ponds are designed to “continuously” hold a specific amount of water, indefinately. Because of this fact they are also called “wet ponds”. They provide two primary services. First, they capture diverted stormwater runoff from streets, gutters and other impervious surfaces such as parking lots, sidewalks and roofs before releasing it into other bodies of water such as streams or rivers. The captured water is released at flow rates similar to those that existed prior to land clearing and development (natural conditions). The second benefit of a retaining ponds is to provide pollutant removal. Retention ponds have the ability to remove 30 to 80% of certain pollutants before the release into the local watershed. Pollutants commonly reduced include sediments (soil), bacteria, suspended solids, phosphorous, nitrogen, greases, oils, metals, and of course, everyday human trash.

Vegetation:
Aquatic vegetation is often associated with wet ponds. Grasses and plants often establish themselves and serve as extra filters within the wet pond environment. Living vegetation absorbs dissolved pollutants and transforms those pollutants into less toxic materials. Microorganisms also establish themselves and aid in the breakdown of pollutants. Retention ponds are one of the most effective tools in providing channel protection and pollutant removal in an urban stream environment.

Detention Ponds:
Detention ponds are stormwater basins designed to collect a volume of stormwater runoff and “temporarily” hold that water for gradual release into a receiving stream or stormwater sewer system. Most detention ponds are designed to completely empty within a period of less than 24 hours. Being completely dry between events, they are also called “dry ponds”. Dry ponds do offer limited settling of particulate matter, but subsequent runoff events can cause a large portion of this material to be resuspended. Therefore, dry ponds are mainly used to reduce the peak discharge of stormwater runoff into streams or stormwater sewers and to help limit downstream flooding. They are not used for pollutant control and/or water quality to the extent that retention ponds are. If water quality treatment is the intended goal of the pond, a wet or extended storage pond design should be considered.

Drainage:
The water levels in both of these pond types is established by the low flow orifice (discharge). Generally the orifice is part of a metal or concrete structure called a riser. A detention pond has an orifice which is level with the bottom of the pond so that all of the water will eventually drains out and it remains dry between runoff events. Retention ponds have a riser with an orifice at a higher point so that it retains a permanent pool of water.

Basically:
The difference between a detention and a retention pond is whether or not it has a permanent pool of water.

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