News for Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Water level crisis in Great Lakes
Written by Jim Birchard
The forecast for Lake Huron and Georgian Bay as far as water levels are concerned is not looking good.
That is according to Chuck Southam of Enviornment Canada s Centre for Inland Water.
He says as the end of the year approaches, water levels in Lake Huron and Georgian Bay are approaching record lows.
Southam says in fact the levels are 66 cm below average for this time of year and only 8 centimetres higher than the record low level recorded back in 1964.
He says the latest six month forcast shows that if low water supply conditions continue through December, levels on the lake could begin 2008 as low as they were in 1964 and new record monthly lows could follow.
Southam says to see any significiant rebound in lake levels over the near term there would have be a substatial amount of snow this winer or rain this spring over the entire water shed.
He says the only good news is that the water temperatures this December are about one degree cooler than normal and that is help form more ice on Lake Huron and Georgian bay.
Ice formation helps slow down the evaporation of water from the lakes in the form of lake effect snow
He says there also is ice forming on the St. Clair river and that help slow the flow of water leaving the lakes and helps slow down the lowering of water levels as well.
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