When water supplies exceed capacity in the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River system, water levels rise. When this happens, regulation is looked to as the solution. But during periods of extreme water supply, the ability of regulated outflows to influence Lake Ontario levels is greatly diminished…
How have you been impacted by high water levels along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River shoreline in 2019?
HIGH LAKE ONTARIO OUTFLOWS CONTINUE - The outflow from Lake Ontario remains very high and it continues to be gradually increased in response to rising Lake Ontario levels and persistently high inflows from Lake Erie.
A new report by the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board provides a detailed account of the record-breaking flood of 2017, and what the board did to reduce the levels on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.
The creation of the Moses-Saunders hydropower dam across the St. Lawrence River in the late 1950s provided an ongoing abundant supply of electricity, but the regulation of river flows it allowed constrained water levels on Lake Ontario and the upper St. Lawrence River unnaturally. As a consequence…
By Wendy Leger and Arun Heer, Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Adaptive Management Committee
Thanks to trends showing changing precipitation patterns, rising temperatures and droughts in regions across the Canada-US border, the IJC spent 2016 working on new policies and recommendations to help governments adapt and prepare for the future, according to a newly released…