Lake Ontario is still rising. The Army Corps of Engineers says Sunday morning’s reading was 248.3 feet, driven by more than three inches of rain in the first week of May. Normally Rochester gets less than three inches of rain for the entire month. Lake Ontario is now just six inches away from an all-time […]
There was local flooding around the Rochester area as heavy thunderstorms swept through late Monday afternoon, and the heavy rain forced a discharge of untreated sewage from the Rochester area sewer system. The weather station at the Rochester Airport reported .41 of an inch of rain. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation says 3,300,000 […]
The City of Rochester will make a third try at coming up with an acceptable redevelopment plan for the Port of Rochester. City Council voted Tuesday night to hire the “Community Design Center” of Rochester to lead a new planning process for the waterfront in the Charlotte Neighborhood. The $40,000 contract will be covered half […]