The Christmas on the Lake event at Lake Wildwood is known to raise money for local charities each year.
In 2014, they raised $9,000 or Pin Point Hospice.
Last year, they raised $6,000, but this year, the event is canceled.
Jerome Harvey, the General Manager at Lake Wildwood Association Incorporated, says it’s because the water level is down about a foot of water.
During the interview, Harvey stood still at Rocky Creek, but there were only small puddles and dirt, where streams of water once flowed.
“You can walk across this. That's the problem. There's no measurable precipitation coming in the area or up river,” said Harvey.
He says they haven't seen the lake this low in nearly a decade and It's affecting the animals.
Residents in Lake Wildwood reported seeing more deer. Harvey explains that the because the tributaries are dried up, it causes the animal to see for water in more common areas.
“They have to travel farther out of their protective areas so we see more activity from the deer and other mammals like that, said Harvey, “That have to come farther to get in to the lake to get there from the lake to get to their drinking source.”
Maintenance Supervisor for Lakewood, Kevin Hall, says there's one solution to this problem -- rain, and lots of it.
He says this problem didn't happen overnight.
“It just slowly had went down. We had people calling us to close the spillway valve so that we aren’t losing water, and we've had to tell them it's not the valve that's leaking and losing water. There is no water coming out. We haven't had the amount of rain that we should have right now to fill up the lake,” said Hall.
Due to the low levels, the neighborhood canceled its annual Christmas on the Lake event, where people tour Wildwood by boat to view lights and other Christmas decorations.
Special thanks to Jay Oliver for the drone footage.