Lake Ontario today stands nearly two feet lower than a year ago, when it was causing widespread flooding of lakeshore properties and roads. The Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board says the level rose a little over an inch during the past week, to just below 247 feet. That’s about ten inches above average for […]
There’s good news for Lake Ontario shoreline home and business owners from the international lake regulators: they say Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River are now back to “average” water levels. That’s despite a lot of rain plus snow melt in April. A year ago, Lake Ontario was starting to flood shoreline homes and […]
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, Rochester had an earthquake this morning. Actually it was 26 miles North North West of Sodus Point, out beneath Lake Ontario and more than two miles beneath the earth’s surface. It was a magnitude 1.5, so don’t kick yourself if you didn’t notice it.