Yadda Yadda Yadda. Do you work for the NYPA? If you dont work at the dam you're stating propaganda facts. I dont drive an hour to work everyday to listen to internet cowboys like you. If you do work for the man you drank the "koolaid"
More IJC propaganda and fake news. Naturally the water let through the system is higher due to the high water levels. You said it yourself that the flows are able to be higher due to the high water levels. When they lower the flows due to the ice forming that is an excuse to keep the water level high.
So your interest is below the dam. Your using the propaganda numbers published by the IJC, the people that are causing the problem. Sent from my SM-G950U using Lake Ontario United mobile app
The gates at Iroquois have been lowered at various times over the years during the summer. I have been there at the dam when all of the gates were lowered and the water level on the upper St. Lawrence was high. I have been there when the two gates were open for small craft and the upper river was high and also low. Controlling the level of Lake St. Lawrence affects the level of the upper St. Lawrence. I'm not digging through the old polaroid pictures to prove it.
Do you have any "data" to back that statement up about the Iroquois Dam not controlling the flow? Now that the winds are from the Northeast flow should be able to be increased.
"Because water is no longer high enough to keep up a flow rate of 10,400. As a river drops flow decreases. If they did open up the long saulte and allow water to flow over it like they did this summer when the water was 2 feet higher the water in Lake St. Lawrence would drop drastically because the st Lawrence between lake ontario and ogdensburg isnt providing the same amount of water it was during summer peak levels."
What about increasing the flow through the Iroquois Dam?