Shipping season opened today (Thurs) on the Great Lakes, meaning the Lake Ontario-Saint Lawrence River Control Board has cut down the outflow from Lake Ontario to avoid putting shipping at risk. But local and state officials are urging the board to keep the outflow at maximum as they did during the winter in an effort […]
Supervisor Bill Reilich and the Greece Town Board are requesting a formal inquiry into the spring flooding along Lake Ontario and the damage to waterfront homes and businesses. Reilich says they’ve written to President Trump asking for the federal government to examine the entire process of how the controversial Plan 2014 for regulating the Great […]
The City of Rochester says it has no choice but to ban swimming indefinitely at Durand-Eastman beach, because there essentially is no beach anymore. The high waters and waves of Lake Ontario have torn away nearly all the sand, leaving water right up to the base of the hills above the shore. Paths that once […]