The International Lake Ontario St. Lawrence River Board says Lake Ontario water levels will continue to rise this spring while it tries to deal with a major flood event in the lower St. Lawrence River. The regulating board says it’s trying to balance high levels upstream on Lake Ontario and the upper St. Lawrence […]
Governor Cuomo says state representatives will meet this week with the International Joint Commission, while work goes on to prepare for possible flooding along the Lake Ontario Shoreline. The IJC is the international body that regulates the Great Lakes. Currently it’s restricting the flow from Lake Ontario because of flooding in Canada along the […]
Lake Ontario’s water level is still about a foot less than it was two years ago, when widespread flooding hit the lakeshore counties. Over the weekend, Governor Cuomo said New York is filling sandbags and deploying aqua dams to the shoreline counties including Cayuga, Monroe, Orleans and Wayne. More than 200,000 sandbags are reportedly being […]