Water levels

[skibunnie64]

Took Simara to Pointe Des Chense today and couldn't believe how low the water is. Simara didn't seem to mind she found enough water to play in and have fun though.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/skibunnie64/Pointedeschenseapril222007003.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/skibunnie64/Pointedeschenseapril222007007.jpg

[Chako]

Wow. Haven't seen it that low before.

[skibunnie64]

I was shocked when I seen how low the water level was there

[kathy590]

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k151/kathy590/Camp037.jpg


Heres one at Pointe Des Chenes last summer, I've never seen it that low either, wow!

[Sassybitch73]

Wow, that is very low. Its very low out here in Havilland too. That is due to the fact that we never had much snow this year...and therefore, the lakes are going to be down alot due to that reason.

[msmiths]

never mind the snow

thats not why at all

time to look outside of the box

lake superior is down 24 inches not 18 as they say

[Nebey]

Here is a panoramic I took out at Haviland this past weekend...
I remember when the water was much lower than it was say last year, but this is the lowest I have seen it out there. Other than during those weird weather phenominoms?

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p288/Nebey/CampAprilPanoramicsmall.jpg

[Intangible]

Wow. Better dock that boat at a marina.

[goodasgold]

that's crazy

[Sassybitch73]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MLSSVCS</div><div class="ubbcode-body">never mind the snow

thats not why at all

time to look outside of the box

lake superior is down 24 inches not 18 as they say </div></div>

"You get a little more evaporation when there's no ice"...so you can't tell me that its not because we had a lack of snow this winter and colder weather which creates more ice foundations on the lakes. The Soo got more snow this winter than we did out here..I live out here all year round. That plays a big part of why Lake Superior is down so much this year.

[hp2]

omg thats scary!!

[The Piper]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Havillandgal</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MLSSVCS</div><div class="ubbcode-body">never mind the snow

thats not why at all

time to look outside of the box

lake superior is down 24 inches not 18 as they say </div></div>

"You get a little more evaporation when there's no ice"...so you can't tell me that its not because we had a lack of snow this winter and colder weather which creates more ice foundations on the lakes. The Soo got more snow this winter than we did out here..I live out here all year round. That plays a big part of why Lake Superior is down so much this year. </div></div>

I seem to recall that in March instead of dropping an inch Superior stayed the same... If you were to go into the hills you would have seen pretty decent snow depth, granted there was less snow along the shoreline but that wouldn't make a noticeable difference. Personally, I believe the reason for the low water levels is isostatic recovery. The ground beneath the Great Lakes is slowly returning to, well, "ground level". Think about it...rivers go through 3 or 4 stages of "age" and eventually dry up, so what makes anyone think the great lakes won't eventually dry up?

[Nebey]

Distressed by persistently low water levels and working on a hunch it might be tied to ongoing riverbed erosion on the St. Clair River, the primary outflow for Lakes Michigan and Huron, a group called the Georgian Bay Association released a study in 2005 that charges the Corps of Engineers dredging work had scraped away the St. Clair River's natural rocky bottom, creating an ever-deepening - and faster flowing - river that has sucked down the long-term average levels of Lakes Michigan and Huron by more than a foot.

I found it here

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=578869

Sounds like it was someone not thinking of their actions... poor engineering if you ask me.

Edit - Superior drains into all the other great lakes in one way or another, so if Michigan and Huron are draining too much, then superior will lose more as well.

[Little B]

I was thinking of taking my pooch to the beach, glad I didn't , I won't bother with that level.