Stu,
I can attest to the dropping water levels. We pulled out early to make
sure that we could get our boat up river for haul out. Hopefully we will
be able to go in next year. Lake Michigan/Huron (considered on body of
water)is within 2 inches of the all time low level for October and it is
expected that we will lose 2 inches in October.
Neil Schiller
1970 Redwing 35, Hull #7
(C&C 35, Mark I)
"Corsair"
Tucked away in South Haven, MI
On 10/2/2012 4:44 PM, Stu wrote:
This is NOT C&C related, but if you can't sail your boat, it will be:
Dear friends of Georgian Bay and Lake Huron,
A recent report by the International Joint Commission (IJC)
recently announced a recommendation that the water level of
Lake Huron/Georgian Bay be allowed to decline by another 1½
metres without government intervention (for our American
friends, that's 5 feet!).
Why do we care? Because the Great Lakes were formed by
glacial melt in the last Ice Age, and man has intervened. We
have created global warming and we dredged the St. Clair
River to permit super tanker ships to reach the upper Great
Lakes. In fact, the channel was over-dredged and exposed a
soft layer of terrain which washed away further increasing
the flow of water leaving the upper Great Lakes.The flow of
water leaving the lakes has been dramatically accelerated! If
allowed to continue, the lake levels will continue to drop.
_There is a solution_: stone baffles could be installed at
the bottom of the St. Clair to return the depth of the St
Clair River to that which was intended for freighter traffic.
The dollars required to do his are quite manageable and are
much less than the cost of allowing the situation to continue.
Please take a short moment to sign a new petition which
implores the IJC to do something about the problem. (See link
below). If you care about the ecological and economic
devastation that will result from further drops in the water
level, send an e-mail to the IJC, ( link below), and please
pass on the links *_to everyone you know_.*
Thanks for caring about the Bay
*Read more about it and sign it here*:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Save_the_upper_Great_Lakes_water_levels_especially_Lake_Huron_and_Georgian_Bay/?launch
To contact the IJC:
e-mail - commiss...@ottawa.ijc.org
<mailto:commiss...@ottawa.ijc.org>
Letter - 234 Laurier Ave W 22nd Floor, Ottawa ON, K1P 6K6
Campaigns like this always start small, but they grow when
people like us get involved -- please take a second right now
to help out by signing and passing it on.
To edit your petition at any time, click here:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Save_the_upper_Great_Lakes_water_levels_especially_Lake_Huron_and_Georgian_Bay/edit/
Let's make change,
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