Lake Ontario: IJC heard property owners’ lake level concerns Monday
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By Bill Wolcott | Source: Niagara Gazette
JUNE 9 — Shoreline property owners on Lake Ontario are preparing to buck an environmental plan on a new strategy to regulate the levels of Lake Ontario. They’ll make their case at a public hearing today [June 9] at 7 p.m. at the Olcott Fire Hall.
Two members of the International Joint Commission will conduct the meeting to discuss a $20 million study that was conducted over the past five years. Its purpose was to see if a better plan could be developed. Three plans have been proposed to replace the current Plan 1958.
Tony McKenna, a member of the plan’s Public Interest Advisory Committee, said environmentalists are pushing for Plan B-plus, which would to stretch the current range of water levels. That is, the deepest Great Lake would get higher highs and lower lows.
… Property owners say they are paying taxes on land that is now under water.
01 • Richard Henry Says: 08.09.08 at 9:00 am
I am a property owner on the SE shore of Lake Ontario, T of Richland, Osweogo Co. N.Y.. Our beach assoc. numbers 75 residences, seasonal and yearround. Most are 80+ years old and have already lost 100-200 feet of shore to the 1958 treaty. Our potential loss(es) and those of the riparian townships is truly monstrous. Despite this, Congresspersons, McHugh and Slaughter, have thrown our area under the bus. This is the largest potential, probable case of EMINENT DOMAIN without compensation I’ve ever heard of. Is anybody, or group, out there looking at classaction lawsuit(s)????