The drought isn\u2019t over but conditions are improving.<\/p>\n
Quinte Conservation and the Low Water Response Team have reduced the region\u2019s low water condition to Level 2.<\/p>\n
The region has been under a Level 3 condition, the most serious, since September.<\/p>\n
Quinte Conservation says that over the last several weeks the watershed\u2019s low water conditions have stabilized with a return of more seasonal rainfall amounts.<\/p>\n
The last week of October saw significant precipitation which helped to offset drier conditions experienced during September and the first half of October.<\/p>\n
The monthly rainfall totals for October ended at normal or near-normal levels for each of the local watersheds.<\/p>\n
Anticipated rain over the rest of November will help improve drought conditions further.<\/p>\n
Improving groundwater levels and streamflow conditions have been observed and while stream flows are improving, they remain well below normal for this time of year.<\/p>\n
Quinte Conservation continues to receive reports of isolated dry or depleted wells, but many have started to recover.<\/p>\n
Water hauling companies are still operating but the demand has peaked.<\/p>\n
Low water indicators of rainfall and stream flows are measured on a three-month basis for determining level status and changes.<\/p>\n
The change to a less severe low water Level 2 status is based on field observations, however, it may require several months to return to normal conditions with no observed effects.<\/p>\n
A Level 2 Low Water Condition indicates a potentially serious water supply problem.<\/p>\n
Quinte Conservation is still requesting a 20% reduction in water use.<\/p>\n
The current Level 2 Low Water Condition will be in effect until (or updated before) December 18, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The drought isn\u2019t over but conditions are improving. Quinte Conservation and the Low Water Response Team have reduced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3735,3736,49,48,295,44,3733,3731,3734,3729,3730,3737,66,3732],"class_list":["post-297248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-bancroft","tag-brighton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-news","tag-pec","tag-picton","tag-prince-edward-county","tag-quinte","tag-quinte-news","tag-quinte-west","tag-science","tag-trenton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}