Webster was a channel drilled through the bedrock. There is a crib on the lake bottom and the channel comes up through the bedrock into the crib. There is no piping. The facility in Greece has a pipe on the lake floor and a crib at the end.
Actually, the bedrock has been drilled into by the Water Authority. Our intake in the new plant was drilled thought the bedrock for 1.5 miles out into the lake under the lakes surface.
I purchased a Chamber Vac and will never go back to a food saver again. I bought an Avid Armor chamber vac. It runs around $369.00 and the bags are substantially cheaper than food saver bags!
Has a study ever been done on the affects of the Ice boom on the Niagara? I would think it would slow the warming of Lake Ontario’s west end by holding g back the ice.
I would think there are tons of factors. Length of winter, health of YOY alewife going into winter, strength of the bottom of the food chain going into winter, predation and who knows what else!
I ran years of temp data and compared it to the State of the Lake meetings trawl assessments and there were warm winters with great survival and warm winters with poor survival. There were also cold winters with good survival and cold winter with bad survival. What we all know is winters like 2014 and 2015 survival is horrible. Those winters, we had issues with frazzle ice in our intake. Schreksoff is the man and hopefully he chimes in.
Runnings in Brockport gets it in once and a while. Hodgdons website has been the Most reliable place to find it. Muzzle-loaders.com and Midway USA has it from time to time also.