Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo is calling on the International Joint Commission to immediately act to lower high water levels on Lake Ontario. Winter is when the water levels are at their lowest, but this year they’re approaching the same levels as the winter of 2017. Heavy rains and snow melt caused record high […]
A report from the International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board today (Thu) finds it was extreme weather and an unusually wet spring that caused last year’s flooding along the lake shore, not Plan 2014. The plan for regulating Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence has been subjected to intense criticism since the floods a year […]
As a major rain and ice event approaches the Great Lakes region this weekend, regulators at the Lake Ontario – St. Lawrence River Board are keeping an eye on what it might do to spring lake levels. The board says Lake Ontario rose about half an inch over the last week with relatively dry weather […]