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Holy Water Levels, Again.

6K views 38 replies 14 participants last post by  SV Siren 
#1 ·
Water levels on the lower great lakes, Trent Severn, Ottawa River and St Lawrence are something else this year. In some areas the 2017 flood levels have already been exceeded.

Newsworthy from a boating and sailing perspective is the Ottawa River has been closed to all non emergency boat traffic for 400 km! All boats, canoes, kayaks, sailboats, tour boats.

There are a bunch of yacht clubs and marinas along this stretch including several big Ottawa yacht and sailing clubs.

My boats on a trailer, soI will be looking for other options this coming long week end (will likely head to some lakes on higher ground).

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/loca...-first-use-of-new-law-meant-to-protect-whales
 
#37 ·
Minne-
What Arcb said. In Chicago, they announced a 2-year plan about two years ago, to mitigate climate change. New paving is supposed to be done with a porous concrete, which will allow rainwater to seep directly into the ground instead of pooling or running off and flooding low areas. But, porous concrete and other "simple" solutions cost money.
In the last decade as home prices have come back up, every bit of lowland and swamp has been built up, minimal money spent on anything out of sight (like drainage) and between that and a slight weather shift, any plans the ACE made for flood control 50 years ago are totally trashed.
I expect large parts of the US south and east coast will become like Bangladesh: Places that should have been left as swamp, but the only places that poor people could afford to go. So, they will perennially be flooded out. Chicago raised their downtown street level one whole story after the Chicago Fire, to elevate it out of the swamp. Seattle did the same thing in what is now Old Town and Underground Seattle. And apparently Chattanooga did something similar after the Civil War, that's mainly undocumented.
These days people expect the Federal Funding Fairy will pay for it all, but they're getting rude surprises. And this is nothing new, really. There are towns, cities, in Europe that were great ports in the middle ages--and now are miles from the shore. Some continue as vigorous towns. Others, like Venice, are having to make hard choices today.
 
#38 ·
....... And this is nothing new, really. There are towns, cities, in Europe that were great ports in the middle ages--and now are miles from the shore. Some continue as vigorous towns. Others, like Venice, are having to make hard choices today.
You're exactly right. It start arguments, when this point is made. The shoreline will continue to change. Period. Plan for it, stop kidding ourselves we'll stop it. Slowing down the inevitable is best case and still the odds are strongly against even pulling that off.
 
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