As of April this year, there were bullet holes in it (see attached lo-res photos). I have never seen it before, so I don't have anything to compare it against. My guess was that the "leakage" at the bottom of the pipe would impact the eruption more than the bullet holes. Ken Reeves On 10/20/2012 7:02 PM, Karen Webb wrote: > Has anyone been to the Crystal Geyser area lately that can update us? > Specifically, does anyone know if the damage done to the pipe with > what looks like bullets (?) been fixed. If not, would one need > permission to patch the pipe, and what would you do it with? We're not > that far and wouldn't mind fixing this annoying man-made damage so the > poor little thing can once again attain some height. Maybe if all the > Utah gazers could set aside a long weekend (I guess I blew it not > trying to round people up for UEA) and someone knowledgeable could > guide us in our efforts, we could return it to its former state of > niceness? I know the intervals are long enough that some sort of metal > spackling-type agent could be applied, neatened up, and probably dried > between eruptions. > Karen Webb -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: </geyser-list/attachments/20121021/6cff7f5c/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: fbadfjhg.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 65209 bytes Desc: not available URL: </geyser-list/attachments/20121021/6cff7f5c/attachment-0001.jpg>