This week’s storms dumped 5.57 inches of rain in the Charlottesville area, the fifth-highest August total for a “single event” during 110 years of record-keeping at the McCormick Observatory, according to Jerry Stenger of the University of Virginia Climatology Office.

Four heads of local governments and boards decided Monday to form an eight- to 10-member task force to examine the need for and scope of a dredging study on the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir.