WIMBERLEY, Texas — Drought conditions are improving at a well-known swimming spot in Hays County.
Water is flowing again at Jacob's Well after months of "zero flow."
For Central Texans like Shelby Fitzgerald and Brenda Navarro, Jacob's Well is their "happy place."
"The water is magic and a little bit scary in the well, for sure," Fitzgerald said.
"Well, it's exciting definitely to see it going up. Hopefully in the summer, we'll have enough water to where we can come and swim, take a dive," Navarro said.
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But does this current status mean that people will be able to return this summer? Katharine Sturdivant with the Hays County Parks Department said it's good start, but we may not be out of the woods just yet.
"The only thing we can do is enjoy this. I really want people to come out and see Jacob's Well. We haven't seen flow like this in a while and, again, we're not really sure how long it'll last," Sturdivant said.
Right now, the flow rate at Jacob's Well is around 11 cubic feet per second. If flows fall below two cubic feet per second as summer approaches, swimming may not be permitted.
"Things are not over. We are not out of this drought. And we cannot make the official call to allow swimming," Sturdivant said. "What we will be looking for is continuous flow out of Jacob's Well as we move into the spring."
How are other Central Texas swimming areas faring with all the rainfall?
Blue Hole Regional Park has seen more than seven inches of rain in the past week with flowing creeks while Mansfield Dam saw more than three-and-a-half inches. Lake Travis is also currently 39% full.
"So I hope that the people who are in charge start to pay attention to such things and we as a community come together and conserve our water so that we have our natural places," Fitzgerald said.
Sturdivant also said the area still needs good, steady, drizzly rain that will trickle into aquifers and bring water levels up.
It is holding onto cautious optimism, as a once physical manifestation of a drought finally comes back to life.