Water & Works
Reservoir office publishes both high-water marks
The new schedule pairs the older depth mark, taken before the spillway was cleared, with the later reading. The office says neither mark alone sets a safe reserve level.
A QSN investigation
From Reservoir to Landing
Follow a water decision from the marks at the upper reservoir through the North Sluice and to the household turn at Seventh Bridge, then out to the shared mill with Stonewater. Each account asks what a gate total can and cannot say about water people receive.
7 chapters · Follow the reporting in order
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Filed February 12, 2031 · Water & Works
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Filed April 1, 2031 · Memory & Arts
Memory & Arts
Archive copy keeps the blue waterline but not its survey date
The lower archive’s map register identifies the copyist and later annotations, but not when the blue bend was measured in the field. The line cannot yet establish a spill route.
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Filed July 9, 2031 · Water & Works
Water & Works
Dema Orr: the gate total is not the household total
The North Sluice keeper explains why a steady release mark can coexist with a lower level at the last cisterns, and what the next low-flow inspection needs to record.
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Filed September 4, 2031 · Water & Works
Water & Works
At Seventh Bridge, a copper tag moves before the water does
A household queue follows the release board down a long stair, where a posted turn and the arrival of water are not always the same event.
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Filed June 22, 2032 · Water & Works
Water & Works
What the two reservoir marks answer and what they do not
The paired readings establish when the spillway was cleared, not the reserve the west face can safely retain. The water office is using them as a baseline for the next lower-flow check.
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Filed May 30, 2034 · Water & Works
Water & Works
Seventh Bridge board pairs the gate release with arrival time
After a season of paired observations, the water office has added a last-landing mark to the release notice. The schedule is unchanged, but residents can now check when a turn arrives.
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Filed June 1, 2034 · Outer Roads
Outer Roads
Border mill ledger dates each water-turn exception
Kharad Venn and Stonewater have agreed to record the date of each seasonal exception at the shared mill. The accord still assigns turns by season; it does not settle who gets priority in a dry week.