Compared to the Mid-west, we have plenty of water.   According to the U.S. Drought monitor, we are merely ‘dry’. http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/DM_northeast.htm  Well, I have my doubts about the accuracy of their monitoring for this region.  It isn’t, after all, a major agricultural center and the water rights for the cities are ample, well protected, and unchallenged.*  So, why should they monitor it closely.  Besides their fine print does say that it may not be accurate…

So my doubts….Stub Hollow’s brook is only barely flowing, and really only below the old Stoney Lonesome pond, which is spring fed and controlled by a dam.  Stub Hollow’s headwater marsh, which is mostly a point of surface water collection about half a mile above the pond, isn’t producing much water.  Usually, the brook has a significant year round flow, sufficient that you will have to either wade or be very agile at rock hopping, and has fish.*  The big swamp on Maple Hollow has only a center channel, mud that should be 4 to 8 inches under-water is growing grass.

Julie’s Pond, spring-fed, is holding water; but the outflow is down to essentially a seep.  As opposed to about ten gallons a minute in a normal year.

And its only mid-July…

*The various city water companies own huge swathes of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York; they are routinely overlooked property owners.

*the unbiquitous little fast moving minnows, never more than about four inches in length.  but fish nonetheless.