Good morning
I used the data prior to last night's weather disturbance, which dropped the lake around us by 2-3 inches.
Scott seems your are correct in that the lake level hasn't really changed over the last two weeks, it should have gone down not up slightly. The IJC forecasted the level around this date to be 74.7 M
http://www.thesuburban.com/news/lake...1cab470c0.html
Thursday November 9th average level was at 74.929 M
Reading date / Lake Average
July 22 - 75.71 M
Aug 4 - 75.6
Aug 18 - 75.47
Sept 1 - 75.28
Sept 15 - 75.12
Sept 29 - 74.99
Oct 10 - 74.95
Oct 27 - 74.83
Next read date is Nov 24th.
News over the last couple of weeks has the IJC taking their horse and pony show around to various towns by the lake, here in Canada and in the USA. The outcome was the same at each, IJC defends plan 2014 and at the end questions are still not fully answered by the IJC. But one thing is for certain, with this plan in place and how it is regulated, we are guaranteed to have high waters and floods again.
http://www.quintenews.com/2017/11/brighton-council-gets-update-water-level-control-measures/161308/
https://www.insidebelleville.com/ne...io-will-reach-record-highs-again-experts-say/
Below is from last night, finally someone pointed out that plan 2014 protects those past the dam ( downstream in Quebec )
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2017/11/09/lake-ontario-flooding-plan-2014/848497001/
After a spring and summer of flooding and erosion along the Lake Ontario shoreline, water levels have subsided to near-normal levels.
But concern about this year's flooding and the possibility it could occur again soon remains high.
As evidence of that, 150 people turned out Thursday afternoon for a state Senate hearing on Lake Ontario water levels held in Wayne Central High School in Ontario, Wayne County.
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The purpose of the gathering, according to state Sen. Pamela Helming, R-Canandaigua, a co-sponsor, was to "shed light on what happened, why it happened and what we can do to prevent it from happening again."
Sixteen experts and advocates were scheduled to testify, with each of them subjected to questioning from a panel of nine state lawmakers.
Much of the give-and-take had to do with the working of Plan 2014, the new regulatory regimen that governs how much water is released from Lake Ontario through a huge dam on the St. Lawrence River.
The plan was created over a 16-year period by the International Joint Commission, a U.S-Canada treaty organization, and approved by the U.S. and Canadian governments in 2016. It was implemented in January, less than three months before lake levels began a precipitous rise.
The IJC and other experts insist that unprecedented rainfall and river flows in the eastern Great Lakes region were responsible for the high water. "The reality is water level regulations will not eliminate flooding," said Tony David, a member of the appointed board oversees discharges from the lake.
Shoreline residents and other critics of the plan believe it did in fact contribute to the flooding along the lake and river last spring.
They also believe regulators could have done more to prevent the high water, in part by keeping the lake level extra-low in the wintertime. "It feels there was no consideration given to what if? - what if we have record levels of precipitation," Helming said at one point.
Frank Sciremammano, an engineer from Brighton who sits on the water-level board aired his concerns that Plan 2014 could result in more frequent flooding and that it favors downstream interests in Quebec at the expense of those in New York.
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He also lamented the fact that under the new plan, the board of which he's been a member since 1995 is not allowed to intervene more quickly to address unusually high or low water.
"Our role is to implement the plan and apologize for the results," he said.
Lana Pollack, the U.S. chair of the IJC, also presented testimony before the state legislative group. She echoed others who said that neither Plan 2014 nor any other plan to regulate Lake Ontario could prevent high water when natural factors conspire to produce it.
Lake Ontario shoreline flooding through the decades
She also implored the lawmakers to embrace that point and focus their attention not on eliminating flooding but minimizing damage.
"If you want to give your constituents what they deserve ... don't promise what you can't deliver," she said.
Helming, whose district includes Webster and shoreline towns in Wayne and Oswego counties, was instrumental in securing the state's $45 million Lake Ontario shoreline relief flooding program, which offers up to $50,000 to residential property owners to repair homes or protective breakwalls damaged by record high water on the lake this spring and summer.
The program initially funded $15 million to homeowners, with the balance to be split between businesses and municipalities that suffered damage. In October, Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for a special session of the state Legislature to appropriate an additional $35 million to the flood relief program