Posted on 01/22/2015 2:14:19 PM PST by Paul46360
"In January 2013, Lake Michigan hit its lowest water mark ever. Just two years later, the big lake has seen what some are calling an unparalleled turnaround.
“We’re up almost two feet from there. Last fall, we had an unprecedented event where lake levels continued to rise through the fall. It has not rebounded this quickly I think in any recorded history that we have,” said Chris Schropp of the U.S Army Corps of Engineers."
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Back in the late 70s and early 80s, rising Lake Michigan water levels caused all sorts of erosion along the western shore. We had record snowfalls and record cold those years, which led to little evaporation.
Leading up to that time, the St. Clair River had been dredged, causing a change in the flow of water. Also, some other rivers were dredged, affecting water flows either into our out of the great lakes. All along, the Army Corps claims no responsibility that the St. Clair dredging impacted the water level and no one can effectively calculate the impact of other dredgings.
So last winter it was beastly cold, with a lot of snow. Summer wasn't particularly warm and the darndest thing happened. The water level of Lake Michigan rose. Huh!
So sure it was climate change, but not the kind that the bed wetters would have you believe, where major floods occurred...or in the past, where you could walk halfway from Wisconsin to Michigan where there was once a lake. Nope....just normal stuff that's been going on for thousands of years.
So, yawn.....go back to reading other stuff, this is no big deal, we've seen this play before.
Obviously you don't live in Michigan.....this is not an aberration, this is a return to normalcy since the great lakes and Lake St. Clair levels have been below normal levels for the past number of years......
The severity of last winter caused the great lakes to freeze over, thus preventing the evaporation of lake water and the enormous amount of snow we received provided the necessary water to raise the levels of the lakes.......
Just like everywhere else, our weather is cyclical and so is the water levels of our lakes.........
No, the one with the jalousie windows. :>}
“I would say the raise in ocean levels..OH WAIT the ice caps are melting..the polar bears are drowning..the penguins are dying...”
Don’t tell this to the Californians, because they have lusted after Great Lakes water for years and would actually build a pipeline for it if they could (there are treaties between the US and Canada essentially making this impossible, even for Lake Michigan).
I know, I just want to be on record first, I mean why shouldn’t I be able to get in on the BS study federal gravy train?
Not to worry!
Global warming is going to cut my heating bills and boil out the excess lake water!
If the Great Lakes were to fully turn to ice, their volume would increase by about 9%. Before you get there though, you have summers where melt off will enter the Lakes and not evaporate due to lingering ice cover. Not a pretty picture if you realize what could happen. Ice generating machines.
There are some things you can always rely on.
The scammers will figure out a way to screw taxpayers out of money when the water level goes down.
The scammers will figure out a way to screw taxpayers out of money when the water level goes up.
Heck yeah! FReepers should be paid too!
Canada drains into the great lakes
Maybe my waterfront property will, in fact, be further inland this summer. I just looked up stats from the time I lived there, and those years hold the record for LOWEST water levels recorded.
I think it’s the rising sea levels running backward up the St Lawrence River.
Lowest water mark ever = meant nothing
Lake level rebounds = we're all gonna die
Leftists, what a hoot...
The south end of Lake Michigan is supposed to drain through a slough cut through the Little Calumet River, across a series of canals, and out the Illinois River. The flow of the Chicago River is also supposed to “flow backwards”, flushing away much of the pollution that would otherwise accumulate in the part of the lake from where Chicago draws its water, dumping first in Des Plaines river, then also into the Illinois river.
However, the flow through both the Chicago and Little Calumet rivers has been restricted in recent years, because of some concern for pollution downstream, and the backflow is starting to build up, with serious flooding along the Little Calumet and its tributaries. Northern Indiana and eastern Illinois are one continuous level plain, and when flooding occurs, there is no place for it to go except to adjacent lands.
Years ago, Chicago and the Corps of Engineers were working jointly on something called the Deep Tunnel, which was supposed to alleviate this periodic flooding, and help maintain the lake level. Part of the system was an old limestone quarry, on both sides of I-80, that was supposed to catch and hold this flood water, but apparently, that is only partially functional so far.
The water is coming from the glacial melt of the ice floes on Lake Superior from LAST winter.
“BTW wTH is a buck-eye???”
It’s a very beautiful tree, that we have a lot of in Ohio!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesculus_glabra
Yep. Cause, doncha know, that when you add ice it raises the level of water...
(had trouble typing that without laughing, but there are those that would swear by that, and the melting)
Bush’s fault!
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