Water in the Lake!

It won't be at the boat ramp for a long time, but it's getting closer!

There is finally water in Washoe Lake! It's been dry for over a year now so this is a good sign!

 

Today the park supervisor is meeting with the Northern Region maintenance staff about our well. The telemetry system between the well and the water tank hasn't worked for a while now, which means the park can run out of water--so the residence and both campgrounds don't have water, which can be a pretty big problem! The water table has also been really low because of the drought, so that doesn't help the well either!

 

I've been scheduling more interpretive programs and arranging a few guest speakers over the summer. The Nevada Department of Wildlife is going to do a campfire program for us about Nevada Wildlife, and we have a couple groups that do programs for us: The Northern Nevada Astronomy Group, and the Northern Sierra Dutch Oven Group. An acquaintance of mine is giving a Chautauqua performance as a Pony Express rider at Dayton State Park, also as a campfire program.

 

The American Association of University Women contacted the park looking for a speaker next month for their event. I agreed to do it, and invited a co-worker to split up the hour. I haven't heard if she can help yet, but I'm going to start working on it NOW, so I can be ready. It's going to be here pretty fast, the way things are going! This winter pretty much flew by. The talk will be about Nevada State Parks--describing the parks and things to do, like hiking trails, camping, and interpretive programs.

 

Yesterday I did the rounds through the whole park and everything still looked pretty good. The floors got kind of muddy but with all the snow and rain we've been getting, that's expected. Besides a truck full of garbage bags and restrooms to clean, it wasn't bad. We did have a garbage can stolen from one area in the park, so that required a lot of litter clean-up: they took the can, but not the garbage!