ExiledInIllinois

Travis Henry? Daniel Alfreddson? Narrow your question. In wedlock or bastage??? Oh... Dos! Legally Wed.

Blame my Grade 11 West Seneca West English teacher. LoL... And tell @Gugny I just checked water temps going back to 2012. The river which is usually 10-20° warmer than Big Lake today is 66° In: 2012: 75° 2013: 69° 2014: 71° (Cold year, icebergs on Superior in June, ice still falling off north cliffs in July!) 2015: 71° 2016: 73° 2017: 74° 2018: 73° 2019: 66° Lake Michigan has to be in low 50s° ??? Just checked: Mid Lake Bouy: 44°!! High water started after 2013-14 winter!

Sure is!!! Through the years....2000s when Middle Lakes went low. Ontario stayed static because of the St.Lawrence and shipping. It should have been allowed to drop. Naturally cleanse itself. If it dropped, drew down... The reserve capacity would have been able to handle it what Erie, Michigan-Huron (& Superior, but Superior is controlled) giving it! Little known fact. Canada puts water IN to Superior from the Arctic watershed 25% MORE than Chicago diverts daily and around (rough #s) 10% MORE than what goes over The Falls daily. Blame Canada Hydro up in the wilds of Ontario... Tell them to stop generating power for Toronto and stop adding water to L.Superior.

Remember... Lakes are melting hunks of ice. See were Escarpment goes under Lake Huron and water spills into Georgian Bay? See where it goes under L.Michigan @ Door County and water spills into Green Bay? L.Superior to the North I believe is volcanic, basalt. The Michigan-Huron, Erie share common impounded geology. Georgian Bay, Green Bay are beyond that. Superior different. Ontario different. I am NOT a geologist... But I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Any professional geologist out there care to expound? This is an experts only slope.

Polluted water doesn't freeze. Hence it stays warmer. Hence come summer, during the prime evap months of July and August, H2O temps are elevated. Warmer = higher evaporation Suppressed temps because ice has been floating around = less evaporation. Also. With ice cover... There is none to little winter evaporation. Set up a fish tank. Leave it. Where does the water go after a few months. The water is getting cleaner and cleaner. Low water during my years here have been during the warm winters. At one time, this river barely froze it was so hot. Icebergs floating around L.Superior in June and hunks of ice falling from the Apostle Islands "sea caves" in July, up in Northern Wisconsin really do play a part. Global Warming really does play a part. Evaporation will fall outside the basin. Notice Lakes started going up after the hard freeze of 2014?

Yeah... That's my wacky conspiracy theory. IMO the pushed outcomes are unintentional

Yeah... Because thats the fetch of the Bay pointed right at Syracuse and then added with Ontario. Geologically the Bay is a spill over from Huron. The Niagara Escarpment goes under water there and pops up again rounding and impounding Huron and L.Michigan all the way down through Door County, Green Bay into Lower Wisconsin:

I betcha they are really screaming bloody muder on Georgian Bay... The Niagara Escarpment goes under L.Huron at the mouth of the bay. Georgian Bay is like another basin off of Huron... All that water pouring in. From 2000-2014 the docks were jutting out into beach. Now all that added property has to be under water! I haven't looked it up... But Michigan-Huron is up 5.5 FEET in last 5 years. That's a hell of tide on geography that slopes only a few feet ovet hundreds of yards!

Exactly. The game is bigger, faster, stronger today... But NOT better. It's worse. NFL is unwatchable on TV in 2019. Only slightly better in person because of the circus environment. Game in 2019 is garbage, if NOT tacitly pushed outcomes with too many cameras, reviews, electronic devices, wireless, bizarre rules that are incongruous with the game itself!

But that's been the problem with L.Ontario the last few decades! It is the one Lake that stays static elevation-wise... Because of the slack water, locks & dams system built in 1959. All the Lakes need to go through this high-low water cleanse cycle. Ontario needs to go high, fill in marshes. Smallies, monster ones are going insane where I work. The high water habitat flooded the reeds, grasses, couple that with the man-made structure and they are gobbling up small prey! Bass love invasives like round gobies! For years they kept Ontario elevation static because of low water and to maintain the draft needed for the salties to come up The St.Lawrence. What made Toronto, killed Buffalo. 26 foot project depth is not an issue now. Let Ontario fill up with what Superior, Michigan-Huron, & Erie are giving it! "...Lake Huron rolls, superior singsIn the rooms of her ice-water mansionOld Michigan steams like a young man's dreamsThe islands and bays are for sportsmenAnd farther below lake OntarioTakes in what lake Erie can send her..."

My mother inlaw was an RN @ Mercy hospital. OJ would get checked in under the alias: Mr. Treesweet. LoL... A few years back... An old (AA) guy, Wal-mart greeter here in Illinois noticed my Bills cap. He said he worked for Ralph in Detroit... "Ralph would fly them into Buffalo to see OJ run." Ralph is cheap! LoL...

They would have been better NOT prosecuting OJ so fast. Let it play out... Even if it took years. DNA was on the cusp.

You messing with Me? LMAO! Where the hell did this @LeGOATski guy come from! He's bringing his A-game and all-stars like @Cripple Creek & @CountryCletus are going 0-fer. I like your style!

Watch them win the Super Bowl... LoL...

On another note. The more they dredge deep at Sarnia-Port Huron at mouth of L.Huron/head of St.Clair River... Dredge deep into the bedrock... More water is released down the St.Clair, through detroit and into Erie. Food for thought. It's like filling your bathroom sink basin up over the emergency overflow only to blast more of that hole lower. More will go down the drain through the straits and into Erie.

There is a water allowance. We are running dam as we speak. We can divert water through the chamber: 1,000'x110'... Old Panamax. We also have 4 sluice gates on the dam (controlling works)... Those can raise 10 feet high... "40 feet" total across. The wicket dams at Peoria and Beardstown are most likely down and boats are going over dam. Asian carp spawn. They need 60+ miles of dam free river. That's a draw down because we expect rain. Totally within the wording of the law. Read the link. It's published through Cornell Law School, the link I used.

Yes. If you notice the pic above... We are outside the law. The lower pool is too low. What you're suggesting is going 125 in a 55. That pic above is like 65 in a 55.

We can't. EDIT: "Can't" is wrong word. We MAY not. It's breaking the law. SCOTUS 1969 (and prior, '69 one of the latest) ruling only allows ~4,000 cfs to be released at Chicago. That's why there are two controlling works. One @ Chicago Harbor (Navy Pier) and the other where I am on SouthSide. I can easy open both ends of the lock. We are built for that. A normal mitre gate lock can't, the pressure holds gates shut. We have sector gates, can open against the pressure of the head. We open both for the USCG during emergency runs. There is a 6 foot wave now. The law that governs is: USC 33 CFR $ 207.425 The lower canal has to be maintained to this because we would be diverting too much water to the Gulf of Mexico. Even a full breach of Lock & Dam would not flood people under normal conditions. Lockport Lock & Dam would just hold back another 5-6 feet. The levee around the holds to well over 10 feet.

None. Asian carp sky is falling theory has been going on since 2009. Where are they. It's not the rain. We have had a surplus... But Lake elevations have been building since the hard freeze of 2014. Cleaner water also freezes better. Less evaporation. Back to Asian carp. It's at low water that the silver carp tend to jump at. If anything, during high water, they may escape via different routes. Like through Indiana @ Fort Wayne to Maumee/Toledo and L.Erie... There are other avenues from the Ohio and Wabash rivers...

Yes they can. Next thing you'll tell me that when you take a dump and flush... The new toilet water is just as dirty as before the flush. And it's really a "controlling works" because it acts just like the toilet in your house. It's just a big azz one. We would flush more water, dilute even more... But Illinois is bound by SCOTUS rulings going back over 100 years to NOT to divert more than ~4,000 cfs (cubic feet per second). There you have it, the original "low flow" water closet. Anyway... Back to original topic. The Great Lakes are over flowing because winters have been more severe since 2014. The more ice cover on Michigan-Huron & Erie supress Lake temps... So as during the main evaporation months of July and August there is less evaporation that falls outside the basin. Rate of water accumulation beats the rate of abatement. Which means more net water gain than goes out over the Niagara Falls and through Chicago for the middle three lakes.

Is Saranac Utica Club? Or should I phrase that differently. The breweries the same? Not sure where I heard that.

I was born in '68... So I mostly caught him the later years in BFLo... Like '74-'77... Still young... But a few games like a Dolphin's game stand out!

He could catch too, just imagine him today in a passing offense: Notice he took kickoffs too.

The Heddy Topper (Alchemist, VT) was great too:

Also... During rain events, when lots is expected... We will draw down that tail to make room for extra storage. But once event stops, will allow canal to go back to aroung -2.00'... Given the range in USC 33 CFR 207.425 USC 33 CFR $ 207.425 LoL... I don't Wiki talks like me. Nobody does!!! Cut Wiki some slack! TJ O'Brien L/D Of course water goed up and down in lock. The lock is the water elevator around the dam.