For more than two months, the Okanagan has been fixated on getting Okanagan Lake back down to full pool, the high end of the lake's operating range.
That's the level when rain and wind storms don't pose a problem to docks, beaches and people's property.
Getting the lake to a level nearly 80 centimetres (343.250 metres above sea level) above full pool took almost a month.
It will have taken nearly double that to release enough water downstream from the Penticton dam, to get back to that top end of 342.480 metres.
The lake level is currently at 342.539 metres above sea level, down 2.1 centimetres since Tuesday morning, and just 5.9 centimetres above full pool. The high water water mark should be reached this weekend.
But, what then?
Shaun Reimer, head of public safety and protection for the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, who operates lake flow from the Penticton dam, says the lake is still well above where it should be at the end of July.
"We're still a month behind our target level. We're also five weeks past the time we were supposed to be hitting full pool," said Reimer.
"We will be dropping the flow closer to the middle of August. We'll run these high (flows) the next couple of weeks, then we'll start ramping them down."
In a typical year, he says the lake would be at full pool the third week of June before bringing the level down over the summer.
"Normally, in a year like this year with the absolute dry weather we've had in July, we would have a difficult time keeping the lake as high as we want."
Reimer says the lake is still 20 to 30 centimetres higher than he'd like.
"But, as along as we keep flows up, not where they are now but higher than normal, then our models show us we'll be able to get back on track in the fall."