KEYSTONE HEIGHTS—A St. Johns River Water Management District staff member said Lake Brooklyn’s water level increased by 10.8 inches during August, bringing it to 106.4 feet above sea level and around five feet above the lake’s long-term average.
Michael Daly, a technical program manager in the district’s Water Resource Information Bureau, said that average rainfall across the district was 2.25 inches below normal. However, there was a wide divergence of precipitation between the driest and wettest areas of the 18-county region.
“The wettest areas (received) more than nine inches, which were mostly found in eastern Orange County as well as Seminole County and the northwestern portion of Brevard County,” he said. “Southcentral Brevard County and northcentral Indian River County had the driest areas that received less than three inches of rain.”
