Great Lakes water levels rise from record lows
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Sharon Hill | Source: The Windsor Star
Lakes St. Clair, Huron and Superior are at their highest levels in the last four years.
“They’re all up,” Ralph Moulton, manager of the water level information office at Environment Canada, said Tuesday.
Lake Superior, which affects the levels of the other Great Lakes and had dropped to record lows a year ago, is 41 cm higher than it was last year at this time, Moulton said.
Lake Huron is 23 cm higher and Lake Ontario is 31 cm higher than a year ago.
… David Cree, president of the Windsor Port Authority, said he’s hoping lake levels will keep rising.
“The higher water levels this year are good news for everybody in the industry,” Cree said. “If the trend of the last four to five years had continued … it would have been a real issue this year and next year. We’re hoping now that’s bottomed out and we’re on an upward trend in lake levels.”
The same amount of cargo goes through the Windsor port but during times of low lake levels it takes more ships to move goods on the lakes because the ships have to carry less.
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