Michigan's Great Lakes water levels may do something only achieved 4 times in last 154 years

Mlive.com ^ | October 09, 2014 | Mark Torregrossa

[cripplecreek]

Lake Michigan and Lake Huron water levels may do something only achieved four times in the last 154 years.

This time of year is normally the season when Great Lakes lake levels begin to fall. Typically evaporation is greater than precipitation and runoff from rivers and streams. So there is normally less water going into Lakes Michigan, Huron, and Superior at this time of year. On Lakes Michigan-Huron July is typically the high water month. Lake Superior usually sees peak water level in July or August.

This year is different. Lakes Michigan-Huron, and Lake Superior have continued to rise, even up to now.

Lakes Michigan-Huron have risen 3.1 inches since July. Normally those lakes would have dropped 2.8 inches since July. Lake Superior has risen 1.8 inches, while normally dropping 1.2 inches since July.

When we look at the current rise in levels on Lake Michigan-Huron versus the normal fall, we may have just gained almost six inches. In other words, if all of the rest of fall and winter go exactly normal, Lake Michigan-Huron will start next season's water rise six inches higher than last spring. And that's if everything is normal.

[Vince Ferrer]

For the last couple of years scientists have been spreading fear stories about the great lakes drying up. This past winter has refilled them so much they are now at normal levels.

[Nifster]

Global warming ;)

[IncPen]

Life just isn’t safe anymore.

[Steven Scharf]

So why don’t they build a pipeline and pump the water out west? Would probably be cheaper than desalination plants.

[goat granny]

The family had property on Lake Huron, near the top of the thumb back in the 1940’s to early 1950’s....every couple of years the shore line would be out 40 feet for the whole summer season, the following year it would be back to normal...happened twice that I can remember.. I don’t believe todays experts.

[Joe Boucher]

Too many folks up there,
Have to move some to keep the whole area from sinking.

[cripplecreek]

Pump it across the Mississippi?

[cripplecreek]

The addition of 1.3 inches of water in Lake Michigan-Huron represents 1.4 trillion gallons of water. The 1.4 inches of new water on Lake Superior equals 770 billion gallons.

[Labyrinthos]

Melting glaciers? /s

[Sacajaweau]

The Retsoff salt mines here in NY are probably the best known. I had a buddy who went into the mine because his daughter worked there (she was a surveyor). Said he'd never go down again.

IIRC, We did have a collapse a few years back...caused by the waters of the Genesee infiltrating.

I'm a feet on the ground person. No tunnels. No planes.

[Sacajaweau]

I think they were/are talking about selling Great Lakes water. I think it came down to...who has the authority?? Not sure where it stands.

[Safetgiver]

I audited the Safety program of one of those salt mines in 1998. While in the mine, under Lake Erie. Absolutely fascinating and scarier than down 2,500 feet and into a mountain five miles like the Console coal mines south of Pittsburgh.

[SunkenCiv]

No joke — the Grand Haven waterline appears to be higher — but it’s difficult to tell, the breakers have been huge the past few times I’ve been out there, swamping the approach to that little climb up to the pier.

[mad_as_he$$]

Free:

And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Genesis 6:15

[Nailbiter]

waterworld

[Nailbiter]

Chicago has been selling Lake Michigan water for at least 20yrs.

[goat granny]

I remember a couple of years ago some idiot in congress suggested selling the great lakes water..it would take a democrat to think of giving our water away to other countries. Chasing the almighty dollar to spend on their constituents. Washington thinks they can give away anything in this country...it aint theirs. When they are dead and gone, it belongs to those that come after us...

[<1/1,000,000th%]

It’s been a dry summer. They’re just catching up.

[Jabba the Nutt]

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