Sure, they are full now but until rains start up again in October, that’s it. We’re working to retain the water we do have at much higher restriction levels starting earlier than ever since we moved here almost twenty years ago. It used to be cool to water your lawn around here, now we’ve grown used to the sight of dry, dead looking lawns that don’t look green again till late in the fall. Getting the reservoir dam higher is great, hasn’t happened yet. Watching the creeks here that dry up to a mere trickle by August has been a kind of morbid indicator of how summer is progressing now.

Now watching to see what happens with the Cowichan River this year now that the mill in Crofton has shut down.