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 […]
Lake Ontario rose nearly half-an-inch over the last week, but international regulators say nobody should be worrying about lakeshore flooding. The increase was deliberate. It was caused by restricting the lake flow, raising the water level to help free a tanker that ran aground on the St. Lawrence Seaway. The levels rose dramatically in […]
An anti-flood dam requested by the Town of Greece has been delivered, and is being installed along Old Edgmere Drive on the shore of Lake Ontario. The aqua dam was installed at that location last year after the record spring water levels caused flooding all along the shoreline. Water ran through a low-lying vacant property […]