Editor's note: This is the first part of a three-part series on the low water levels and their impact on the area. The series will continue Monday and Tuesday.
West Michigan is known as a water wonderland, but that water is rapidly disappearing.
One of the wettest Octobers on record has brought the West Michigan Lakeshore to slightly above the normal rainfall total for the year to date, WZZM-TV meteorologist George Lessens said.