How may the height of a water table create a spring

When prolonged and excessive rainfall the more water percolates and the water table (below the earth surface/soil) rises.  The higher the water table the more the possibility increases for a spring to form in the sense that it would now be easier for the water to find a means of escaping the underground through perhaps a crack or a cave, etc.

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