Water Levels and Flows
Managing water through the Moses-Saunders dam: Comments submitted
In response to the IJCs’ request for comments on a new management plan for regulating the flow of water through the Moses-Saunders dam, Great Lakes United responded favouring a different plan. Referred to as plan B+, this better replicates the natural flow water, which is critical for the stability of near-shore habitats.
St. Lawrence River one of most endangered in U.S.
American Rivers has released its annual list of the Most Endangered Rivers in the United States, and the section of the St. Lawrence River shared between Canada and the U.S. placed fourth worst.
The zebra mussel: Twenty years later
It was an invasion predicted 95 years before it arrived. Research reports, dating back to 1893 and including a 1981 report to Environment Canada, warned of the risk the zebra mussel posed to the Great Lakes. Despite the warnings, Canada and the United States failed to act. And today, twenty years after the mussel’s discovery, both countries still lack the regulations that would have stopped it in the first place.
New York State joins the compact
In his last weeks in office, on March 4th, former Gov. Elliot Spitzer signed legislation authorizing New York State to join the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact. With the State Assembly and Senate’s passing of the legislation last month and former Gov. Spitzer’s signature, New York State joins [...]
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