if anyone needs some rain

[Mont]

I will be more than glad to email you some. Not only did it pour on me on the bike ride in Mexico, it's been raining ever since, except yesterday. Even Reba B, my Irish setter has had enough of it. We are coming close to a foot of the wet stuff, and it's still coming down.

[gt/va]

Mont,
Just archive that rain and pull it back up about the middle of next July and we'll probably all take some.:D
gt

[DanS/FL]

PK and I feel the same way about rain... You can't get enough of it.

Dan

[PK]

as in NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

.. we had a mini deluge late last nite.. about a half inch in 2 hours.. crapola suxxxxxxx... sure made the water look like YooHoo this morning at da' Pier.. not nice:mad:

you can divert all that H2Ohhhhhhhhhhh down over to Captin' Dan.. he loves the stuff...

[JD]

These 2" plus 1" last week put us only 16" in the hole. The lake I live on is 4' down and some in the area are darn near empty at 17' down. Drove up nawth 2 weeks ago and saw boat ramps that drop 20' into dry brush.

Hope you get a reprieve after this front comes through......

[Bryan/BC]

Please Sir--- May we have some???? :(





Water woes cause for concern



By Beth Scott
Record Staff
Oct 20 2006


Despite a little rain, in less than two weeks users of the Comox Valley water system could be facing stage three restrictions usually only implemented in the height of summer.

Steve Watson of BC Hydro issued a warning Thursday, saying currently the water level in the Comox Lake reservoir is well below normal.

“We are currently experiencing an extreme conservation flow in the Puntledge River,” he said.

“The weather has been extremely dry this past summer and fall. With the dry weather forecasted, we could hit the lowest water collection levels in the 43 years of data collection.”

According to Watson, the water flow, which is also used to generate electrical power for the Valley, is now only being used for public consumption as well as maintaining fish stocks.

However, if it doesn’t rain even those uses could be in jeopardy.

Although the Valley did receive plenty of water from snow run off last winter, the drier than normal conditions throughout the summer and fall have seen BC Hydro consistently lowering their capacity for hydro output, said Watson.

“Going into July, we were running at 90 per cent capacity which was rendered to 33 per cent capacity by the end of the month,” he explained. “For August, we were running at 20 per cent capacity. And on Oct. 5 we stopped generating power completely.”

Watson said the Valley is now receiving its power from the mainland, via Texada Island and Quadra.

“The point is we have done a good job in managing the the water, but there is little water left to manage,” he said.

“Right now BC Hydro is working to provide a sustainable flow for fish, which right now is OK.”

Watson explained that the water level below the hatchery, which usually flows at 15.6 cubic metres per second, is now down to 8.5 cubic metres per second.

“This is the first time we have gone this low,” Watson said.

Watson warned that if there is not significant rainfall — such as a two-day rain storm — in the next 12 days, the Valley will begin to run out of water.

“At the end of the day the water levels are really low,” he said. “Right now every drop counts.”

[DanS/FL]

Damn Bryan, I thought we were low but it sounds like you people are in bad shape. Our water table is 8 ft below where it should be. We have been on water restrictions for a year now. Even with all the rain we had this past summer didn't really help. We have not had any rain in 5 weeks. All the rain fronts Mont has recieved went 150 miles north of us.
Dan