Although we have had a few droughts in New Jersey over the years I can't remember one like this where there has been almost no rain for a month an a half. We had no mensurable rain in October and only slightly more than that so far this month. Since I live close to the Manasquan reservoir I pass by it on a regular basis, on my bike rides, and have seen its level drop over the last few months. Here is a picture I took by the marina back in July 2017 and is normally how the dock looks.
Notice the relationship between the pilings and the dock. Here is a picture of the same location from a different angle in Sept 2022. This is when they took the level of the reservoir down to do some work on the dam and marina.
This is was the lowest I have seen it until today.
This is what it looked like today
Again look at the relationship between the pilings and the dock. It's only got a few more feet before the entire dock is just sitting in the sand. There is some rain in the forecast but it is going to take a lot of rain (over a foot last time I checked) to get us back to normal.
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