<< I can't see how putting baffles in the St. Clair River is going to improve the water level on Lake Ontario.>>
Its not! Stu wants water for his boat, just like everyone else! The Corp did screw up, they pulled the little Dutch boy up out of the bottom of the St Clair river, and now, coupled with low rain/snow, and like Fred sez, higher evaporation, we are all hurting. At a conference I learned Lake Erie gets 90% of its makeup water from Huron. (Not Rain) Pretty much all of that goes over the falls to you. When you look at a chart showing evaporation rates, as you go from Sept to Dec, it climbs like the Himalayas and when we have no ice cover, it stays that way till spring. Unless it starts raining and snowing, we may be going back to the early 30s levels. Interestingly enough, a lot of that evaporated water goes down to Dennis! 5 miles south of the South Shore is the Mississippi watershed - Bill Coleman C&C 39 animated_favicon1 Lake Erie From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Mazza Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 11:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Stus-List Great Lakes Water Levels OK Stu, here's a dumb question: If the water is leaving the Upper Great Lakes faster than normal, why isn't the level of the Lower Great Lakes rising with all that influx of water? We keep our boat in Hamilton, Ontario, and the water level at the fixed docks at the Royal Hamilton Yacht Club is so low now that I have to sit on my butt on the dock with my legs dangling in space before a gingerly lower myself on to the deck of Trillium now several feet below dock level. I can't see how putting baffles in the St. Clair River is going to improve the water level on Lake Ontario. There seems to be something more at work here than water flow through the St. Clair River. It probably has to do more with lack of snow fall and snow build up in the winter with resulting reduced run off in the spring, as well as changes in precipitation generally. Global warming (or Climate Change) perhaps? I don't have an answer, but this does seem to be a problem facing the whole Great Lakes, not just the Upper Lakes. Rob On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Stu <[email protected]> wrote: This is NOT C&C related, but if you can't sail your boat, it will be: Dear friends of Georgian Bay and Lake Huron, A recent report by the International Joint Commission (IJC) recently announced a recommendation that the water level of Lake Huron/Georgian Bay be allowed to decline by another 1½ metres without government intervention (for our American friends, that's 5 feet!). Why do we care? Because the Great Lakes were formed by glacial melt in the last Ice Age, and man has intervened. We have created global warming and we dredged the St. Clair River to permit super tanker ships to reach the upper Great Lakes. In fact, the channel was over-dredged and exposed a soft layer of terrain which washed away further increasing the flow of water leaving the upper Great Lakes. The flow of water leaving the lakes has been dramatically accelerated! If allowed to continue, the lake levels will continue to drop. There is a solution: stone baffles could be installed at the bottom of the St. Clair to return the depth of the St Clair River to that which was intended for freighter traffic. The dollars required to do his are quite manageable and are much less than the cost of allowing the situation to continue. Please take a short moment to sign a new petition which implores the IJC to do something about the problem. (See link below). If you care about the ecological and economic devastation that will result from further drops in the water level, send an e-mail to the IJC, ( link below), and please pass on the links to everyone you know. Thanks for caring about the Bay Read more about it and sign it here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Save_the_upper_Great_Lakes_water_levels_esp ecially_Lake_Huron_and_Georgian_Bay/?launch To contact the IJC: e-mail - [email protected] Letter - 234 Laurier Ave W 22nd Floor, Ottawa ON, K1P 6K6 Campaigns like this always start small, but they grow when people like us get involved -- please take a second right now to help out by signing and passing it on. To edit your petition at any time, click here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Save_the_upper_Great_Lakes_water_levels_esp ecially_Lake_Huron_and_Georgian_Bay/edit/ Let's make change, _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected]
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