Lake Michigan, Lake Huron and Lake Superior water levels to remain low into 2013.

[MonacoMike]

MUSKEGON, MI – Mariners – both commercial and recreational – are being warned that the Lake Michigan, Lake Huron and Lake Superior water levels are dangerously close to all-time record lows.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wednesday provided estimates that if the current trend of Great Lakes water level drops continue, the three upper lakes – Michigan, Huron and Superior – will hit historic lows later this fall or in early 2013.



http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/10/great_lakes_boaters_and_shippe_1.html

 

[Lucky's]

This is crappy news! With the dredging that is done at our yacht club and port I don't think we'll have a problem getting in or out. Problem is at the dock! We have pier docks that are already lowered and by the end of the season there was still almost a 2' drop from the dock to the boat. With 2 black labs that equals a royal PIA!! I hope they're wrong....


Shaun
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[Banagy]

Bay Port Harbor was dredged two years ago to the tune 0f 1.3 mil, hope it will be useful in 2013.

 

[MonacoMike]

Hope the rain and snow come in abundance in the new year...

MM

 

[DaFish]

The low water levels are having a significant impact on commerce - especially those who live on Wahsington Island (off of the tip of Door County, Wisconsin). The ferry line is having to build a new winter dock and dredge its turning basin as the main channel (Detroit Harbor) to the existing and permanant dock is too shallow for the winter boat. Attached is a link to a blog kept by the owner of the ferrry line with good information as to how low the water is getting and interesting information relating to the ferry line.

http://www.ferrycabinnews.blogspot.com/

I think it is going to take more than the wish of "Hope the rain and snow come in abundance in the new year ..."

 

[bigblockcutlass]

We need a state wide flood.

 

[MonacoMike]

The low water levels are having a significant impact on commerce - especially those who live on Wahsington Island (off of the tip of Door County, Wisconsin). The ferry line is having to build a new winter dock and dredge its turning basin as the main channel (Detroit Harbor) to the existing and permanant dock is too shallow for the winter boat. Attached is a link to a blog kept by the owner of the ferrry line with good information as to how low the water is getting and interesting information relating to the ferry line.

http://www.ferrycabinnews.blogspot.com/



I think it is going to take more than the wish of "Hope the rain and snow come in abundance in the new year ..."

Good link.

MM

 

[Hampton]

It is the future. Our consumption of fresh water exceeds nature's ability to replenish the inland supplies from the oceans. This is not a global warming scare. This is reality. Some scientists expect Las Vegas to be a ghost town around 2050. The main cause of the next global conflicts will be fresh water.

China has plenty (if I remember correctly). Europe has plenty. The US is drying up, as are many other parts of the world. It's not about running the faucet, it's about consumption of goods. I can't remember the exact numbers, but making a pair of jeans takes as much as 180 gallons of water. A car requires about 2000 gallons. See article. A very, very, very small portion of the earth's water is available to us for consumption.

http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lectures/freshwater_supply/freshwater.html

 

[bigblockcutlass]

The City of Lansing Michigan goes through about 17 to 20 million gallons of water each day at a low. In the summe, hot dry time's, 44 million a day gets used. It all comes from 400 foot deep wells. Grand Rapid Michigan get its water from Lake Michigan. Detriot I don't know for sure, but I do know it is surface water, it must come from the Detriot River.

 

[DaFish]

And don't forget that Chicago reversed the direction of the Chicago River to flush its waste toward the Mississippi River and not toward the lake (Lake Michigan) where they get all their fresh water from. That is on the west end and on the east end of the Great Lakes, we have the Corps of Engineers that continues to defend its dredging of a river as not having an effect on water levels.