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.
B. law of conservation of mass
This is why the total amount of and element before and after a chemical reaction is constant.