A flood watch is on for Friday for the Lake Ontario coastline along Monroe and Orleans Counties. Winds are expected to swing into the northeast, driving waves ashore. Lake Ontario at Rochester has risen again. At Thursday’s check the Army Corps of Engineers found 247.85 feet, very close to 248, about two feet above the […]
As the Lake Ontario shoreline towns call for relief from high lake levels, high water on the St. Lawrence River has the authorities saying they can’t take any more. Environment Canada has warned St. Lawrence River residents to prepare for the worst floods in 40 years as more rain zeros in on their region. The […]
If you’re a shoreline property owner and are able to have an emergency breakwater of some sort put in, New York’s DEC says you can go ahead and do it and worry about the paperwork later. Normally it takes a sheaf of permits to do work in a wetland or coastal area. But the Department […]