The Sooke Lake dam was raised in 2002 in order to end any capacity issues, but water restrictions have never been removed.
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Posted 05 January 2019 - 05:55 PM
The Sooke Lake dam was raised in 2002 in order to end any capacity issues, but water restrictions have never been removed.
https://www.crd.bc.c...vrsn=550423ca_2
Posted 05 January 2019 - 09:56 PM
There has been a tunnel cored from the Leech River to Sooke Lake. It is unused to date though (and is sealed currently). ..........
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......Leech Watershed isn't anticipated to be a required source of CRD water for another 50+ years (and there are many who say it will never be needed). ...........
....A tunnel linking the Leech River to the Sooke Lake Reservoir was built in the 1980s in anticipation of water demands, but intake and outlet facilities have yet to be put in. ........
WTF?
Posted 05 January 2019 - 11:19 PM
why do you suggest carrying capacity is near max now on heavy demand says? never heard that suggested. just reservoir capacity.
While I don't know the specific circumstances in Victoria, I am a civil engineer and did spend my early career designing and constructing the major trunk mains, peaking reservoirs and pumping stations elsewhere
If I recall correctly the CRD has never installed a new trunk main from the reservoir other than replacing an existing one 15 years ago that was ending its service life.
Posted 03 March 2019 - 07:47 PM
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Posted 03 March 2019 - 07:55 PM
You know for sure the CRD doesn't count snowfall as precip? That sounds very odd to me.
Posted 03 March 2019 - 07:58 PM
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Posted 03 March 2019 - 08:02 PM
Posted 03 March 2019 - 08:52 PM
Environment Canada says the Victoria International Airport weather station recorded 96.1mm of precipitation, 25.7mm of which was from rain and 68.5mm from snow.
The Sooke Hills tend to have significantly higher amounts of rainfall, so the 55.2mm number from the CRD makes sense but even then it's far below 96.1mm as recorded at the airport.
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Posted 04 March 2019 - 03:39 AM
maybe contact the crd and shake this down some more.
Posted 03 April 2019 - 06:55 AM
Sooke reservoir 100% full as of March 31.
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Posted 03 April 2019 - 07:08 AM
Posted 03 April 2019 - 07:13 AM
From September through to the end of March, rainfall is at 94% of average for the period. It would have been much, much higher than 94% if our February precipitation had fallen as rain (as we recall, the CRD does not include snowfall in its precipitation calculations).
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Posted 16 April 2019 - 07:48 AM
Sooke is 99.7% full as of April 14th.
April's rainfall is already at 64% (57.3mm) of the monthly average of 89.5mm. We're at 95% of September 1 - April 14 rainfall average (so much for the drought, drought and drought fears).
We're on a collision course yet again with rising water consumption (due to population growth, obviously) and an inadequately sized reservoir that overflows in the winter and gets low in the summer. We can scream conservation from the rafters, but ultimately that leads to higher rates (which we found out when we last were ordered to heavily conserve) or, well, higher rates.
The daily water use average so far this month is 110.9 million litres. The April average between 2014 and 2018 was 106.8, or 3.7% less. Our population grows at a rate of, you guessed it, 0.7-1.1% per annum.
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Posted 16 April 2019 - 08:03 AM
^Earlier this month after we had a record warm day and 10 days of sunshine CFAX was also blanketing their talk shows on the drought and global warming platforms.
As you point out though, we are bang on average for rainfall and running 2-4 degrees cooler than average temperatures.
Edited by spanky123, 16 April 2019 - 08:05 AM.
Posted 02 May 2019 - 07:53 PM
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Posted 02 May 2019 - 08:29 PM
...On [April] 28th the large reservoir was at 99.5% of capacity.
It's a good thing then that mandatory watering restrictions are now in effect, after all we are a full half percent below full capacity!
Posted 03 May 2019 - 02:48 AM
Posted 03 May 2019 - 05:59 AM
Through April 28th the water watch shows precipitation for the month was at 101% of the average. On the 28th the large reservoir was at 99.5% of capacity.
Interesting to see Goldstream Reservoir was only at 58.5%, I wonder why it is so low
Posted 03 May 2019 - 07:41 AM
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Posted 03 May 2019 - 09:02 AM
It's a good thing then that mandatory watering restrictions are now in effect, after all we are a full half percent below full capacity!
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