St. Clair riverbed, weather changes believed causes for fluctuating water levels
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By SCOTT DUNN | Source: Owen Sound Sun Times
Changes to the St. Clair River bed are responsible for a 13-centimetre drop in lakes Huron and Michigan and in Georgian Bay, according to preliminary finding of an extensive binational scientific examination.
The preliminary results were discussed Tuesday night at a public meeting attended by some 75 people at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre and hosted by the International Upper Great Lakes Study group’s public interest advisory committee.
… this summer’s unusually wet weather has resulted in Lake Huron and Lake Michigan levels 22 centimetres higher than a year ago, the meeting was told. Huron, however, is still 36 centimetres below its 1918- 2007 average for early July.
Ted Yuzykj, the Canadian co-chair of the study group, suggested at the meeting it doesn’t appear the dredging of the northerly mouth of the St. Clair River is the main concern as some suspected.
“There is something going on there,” he said. “Almost 90 per cent” of the area responsible for increased flow is at the south end of the river, he said.
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