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 […]
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 […]
United States Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand are urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a Great Lakes Resiliency Study…similar to the one they did for the Atlantic Coast after Hurricane Sandy. The two New York Democrats want the Corps to include funding in its 2019 budget request. The study would look […]