February 10th – Oh my, it was wet. Snow was on it’s way in, and it was cold with the darkness bearing down. I headed to Chasewater for the last of the light. I was intrigued to see how a week’s rain had increased levels. Last Saturday (2nd February), the water stood at 44cm from the top of the scale, today, it was around 33cm. That’s an 11cm rise in a week, or about four and a half inches. It now occurs to me that the top of the metre scale now being submerged may well correspond to the full point of the lake, which is, of course, the top of the exit weir on the Nine Foot pool. Jeffreys Swag, the main lake and the Nine Foot are all one unified body of water, now, joined through their common overspill culverts.
Even in the headache-grey half light of a bad Sunday evening, this was encouraging news.
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