BY DAN HILDEBRAN
A St. Johns River Water Management District official said Lake Brooklyn in Keystone Heights dropped by a foot in May; however, the lake’s water level still remains above average.
Tim Miller, the district’s chief of the Bureau of Water Resource Information, attributed the decrease to the lack of rain and said rainfall throughout the district was heavy at the beginning and end of the month, with little rain in between.
Miller said rain amounts were highly varied across the district.
“The area around the I-4 corridor, including Seminole Orange and portions of Volusia and Northern Brevard counties, recorded the highest amounts with some localized areas receiving over 12 inches,” he told the district’s governing board during its June 10 meeting. “The average total across the district was above the district-wide monthly average by just over two and a half inches.”
Miller said 16 of 18 counties were above normal, with five counties more than three inches above their averages. Alachua and Indian River counties were the only counties below normal, and both were within an inch of their averages.”
