Drought to Downpour
Fall has Arrived Wed Oct 4th Before heading off to Vancouver Island the Sunshine Coast Regional District, who supply our water, announced that the Coast had gone on to drought level 5 and implemented Stage 4 water restrictions effective Sept 8th. No outdoor use at all and heavy fines for those breaching the rules. Our water salvage tank which had kept the veg beds watered holds 800 gals and had run dry. It had rained while we were away but the water restrictions remained in place. The day we returned Chapman Lake was down to 0%. The storm that came through over the weekend of Sept 23rd and 24th was sufficient for Chapman Lake to go from 0% to 100% within 3 days. At 34 ha in size and holding 680m litres of water it was not insubstantial rainfall. All water restrictions were lifted on Sept 27th and our water tank was again full. Our last few days on Vancouver Island provided a further opportunity to watch the Orca from our...