BY DAN HILDEBRAN
The St. Johns River Water Management District’s water resource information bureau chief said Lake Brooklyn dropped by almost a foot in June but remained above average.
Tim Miller said June’s rainfall throughout the district was 1.51 inches below the average.
Miller said that Invest 90L, which moved across the peninsula at the end of the month and caused flooding in South Florida, also dropped significant amounts of precipitation in the southern part of the water management district. Without that rain, the precipitation shortage throughout the district would have been 3.17 inches instead of 1.51 inches.
“Overall, less rain was received in the northern and central portions of the district,” Miller said. “Fourteen of our 18 counties received less than their monthly average.”
June marked the third consecutive month Brooklyn lost water. The lake dropped 0.10 feet in April, followed by a 0.50-foot decrease in May.
At the end of June, the lake’s level was 108.2 feet above sea level, down from its 25-year high of 109.57, reached on March 17.
