Heard a securite on the VHF today about a dredger operating in the St, Clair River. They are still going at it! Nuts. Typical government attitude toward short term consequences for vested interests. The Chicago waste and barge canal is another example of baffling intransigence.
Steve Thomas
C&C27 MKIII
Cruising Western Lake Erie
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 19:17:31 -0400
From: schil...@bloomingdalecom.net
To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Subject: Re: Stus-List Great Lakes Water Levels
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
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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