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Whats draining two Great Lakes?
BFG 
 		  Port: Anchor Point, Lake Erie   03/13/2006 13:23
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This thread discusses the Content article: What's draining two Great Lakes?

I'd like to see the data that show Erie is higher....you can't begin to imagine all of the small marinas on the north side of Toledo that have nearly all of their permanent docks nearly 4' out of the water built them that way on purpose. If you look around the bays and rivers, most of the houses that have docks are completely out of the water.

Maybe I just haven't been around long enough to argue this point...I dunno...


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Re:What's draining two Great Lakes?
LittleDandy 
 		  Port: LaSalle,MI   03/13/2006 18:34
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Funny part was the 60' deep hole in the St. Clair River that seems to be getting bigger. Geeze, I thought rivers were dynamic, carving holes, silting in areas in an ever changing panorama. Those folks seem to think the bottom doesn't change.
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Re:What's draining two Great Lakes?
t3pt6k 
 		  Port: Grand Haven, MI   03/14/2006 00:20
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well.....here we go again, yet another issue that faces the Great Lakes. At least were going to study it for 5 years to try and figure out what the reason is for losing water. That is if both countries can cough up the money to do so. I say chances are slim for that to happen. Hope they extend the ramps and docks....200 million gallons a day through Chicago and who knows howm many millions through St. Clair. Maybe it's time to build a damn or something.

Sorry for the rant and negativity.....but will it ever end?????

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Re:What's draining two Great Lakes?
WingNut 
 		    03/14/2006 19:07
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One has only to try to pull anchor without motoring up in the St. Clair river to find out where all of the water is going. That current is wicked fast. Wasn't it the Army Corps of Engineers that dredged too much years past causing too much water too fast through there?
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Re:What's draining two Great Lakes?
Candyman1 
 		    03/16/2006 23:18
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This is the same report that surfaced about 2 years ago. It was funded by some waterfront property owners on Georgian Bay who are unhappy with their large beaches. Some are forgetting that the highest water level ever recorded on lake MI was on Sept 30 1986. If they had ordered the study 10 yrs ago, the study would have showed the levels about 2ft higher than avg. That was the year I had to put a step on our dock so that my wife could get up into the boat. Three years later, I had to put a ladder on the dock so that she could get DOWN into the boat. The water dropped 39 inches in less than 3 years. In the 70's the water was so high that dozens of homes on bluffs S. of St. Joe actually fell down into the lake because of erosion of the bluffs. At least one community dumped a bunch of crushed car bodies down the bluff in an attempt to stop erosion. That was a real pretty sight. We fished the area from St. Joe down to Cook nuclear regularly then, and you could look right into the living room of 100 year old homes that had partially fallen into the lake. The fact is, the Great Lakes watershed is very small, and is, therefore, highly susceptible to changes in the annual total precip. Three or four consecutive years of significantly greater or less than normal precip will cause the lake levels to rise or fall dramatically. If you want to see just how small the great lakes watershed is, go to google and search "Laurentian Shield" or "Great Lakes Watershed". In some places in WI, streams within 5 miles of lk MI actually flow west into the Mississippi.
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