New York State is handing out nearly $3 million worth of Lake Ontario flood relief grants to local governments in Wayne, Orleans, Niagara, Cayuga and Jefferson Counties. The money is compensation for last spring’s flooding and for projects that protect lakefront properties from damage by future storms. The funding is part of the $95 […]
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 […]
Greece Supervisor Bill Reilich has written to the chair of the International Joint Commission, calling on them to maintain the outflow from Lake Ontario at the maximum level as it was over the winter. The IJC reduced the outflows last week for the start of the Great Lakes shipping season, but that has interests along […]