Lucky13

You do have quotable sources for those allegations, right? I've seen nothing on any press anywhere to indicate any of this, maybe the Russians have all the evidence? According to the USACE daily reports, Superior is 5" higher than long term average, Michigan/Huron is 11" over long term average, Lake St Clair and Erie are 20" long term average, and Ontario is 32" over long term average. In February, Ontario was ~8" over long term average, in March ~14" over long term average. Where did they store that 3 feet of water they held back last summer when the lake was so low last fall? I know it is difficult for people who need to place blame to consider science and facts, but this is clearly charted as a result of the extremely high rainfall we've received in the last month and a half, almost as much rainfall as they have received over the drainage area of Montreal. How many Power stations are generating? I thought it was one, Moses Saunders. What is its capacity, can it generate unlimited energy with more water? Plants of which I am aware have maximum capacities, in some, more water means no generation. A lot of the damaged property is built right on the water, a lot of the affected people didn't bother to carry flood insurance. My old Spanish friends have a saying, when you mess with the bull, sometimes you get the horns. Huge areas of Montreal are as much as 4 feet deep as reported by Adam Choduk last week.

Adam Choduck from Channel 8 went up to Montreal, was interviewed on Bob Lonsberry last hour. He spoke with two Board of Control members, one was Frank Sciramammano. They reiterated that the current situation was caused by the rains. According to his reports, there is currently no downstream capacity, in some areas of Montreal water is 4 or more feet deep in the roads. Frank did say that "dewatering" the lake is problematic under 2014, as they need a unanimous vote of the board. There may be a detailed report on Channel 8 news later. The predictions in the USACE chart I posted the link for indicate high water into late summer or early fall.

http://w3.lre.usace.army.mil/hh/ForecastData/DailyLevelsEnglish.pdf They were staying pretty close to 2016 levels until the April rains. Flooding is an issue all over the place this year, Black Creek, Oatka Creek, and Irondequoit Creek were all out of bank on Saturday into Sunday. we really need a dry spell for a while.

The 2014 plan did not become effective on LO until 1/1/2017, last summer they were still working with 58 d. And the lake was extremely low last fall, USACE was unable to complete their work in Braddocks then due to low water making it impossible to get their dredge in. I agree about funding for compensation, many years ago Don Zelazny, the Great Lakes Coordinator for NYSDEC, spoke to the need for mitigation for damages in any plan put forward, but somehow that escaped the attention of the Feds. But even Frank Sciremammano, who heads the Control Board and has been a vocal critic of Plan 2014 has indicated that which plan makes no difference in this discussion, this is caused by the extraordinary rains of early April.

http://ijc.org/greatlakesconnection/en/2017/04/lake-ontario-st-lawrence-river-levels-rise-following-april-rains/

You can be held liable for any damage that can be attributed to your wake, so it makes sense to keep it very slow. I've heard reports that the bluffs on the Webster side have been sloughing off, send a big wall of water into German Village and you might draw some attention from the homeowners.

No spigot on the Niagara River!

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2017/05/06/montreal-canada-flooding-rochester-lake-ontario-st-lawrence-dam/101279100/

True dat. There is also no such thing as a Sheepshead ( Freshwater Drum) or a Calico or Strawberry Bass (Crappie) and in Maine a Lake Trout is a Togue. Don't pass up the pickerel on the menu in Ontario, that is what they call walleye. A lot of local names for fish, if there is a point maybe just stick to the latin. My sense of I Bay is that they go through cycles, and there are a lot now, but a few years ago, the catch was mostly yellow perch.

30 or more years ago, silver bass was the name that most fishers around here used for White Perch. The bay and the Greece Ponds used to be loaded with them, but as the water has cleaned up, other fish are competing with them more successfully, so they are not as dominant.

The problems with the Edgemere Drive Pump station have been going on for years, this is an example of some of the neighborhood deciding to bag the sewer use law and hook up sump pumps and gutter drains to the sewer, which uses up capacity when there are storms like we've been having. That good old American "my basement is better than your basement so I get to ignore the law." The remedy would be for the Town to inspect all the homes and get rid of these cross connections, but that would not be politically popular. Pure Waters generally discharges to the river when storms exceed 10 year return frequency, and over an inch of rain in 45 minutes is an event we fortunately only see once in a great while. I am surprised that the discharge was only 3.4 million gallons. Before the CSOAP tunnels were built, it would have all gone to the river. The manager of collection usually send out a note to the effect that the discharge is later in the storm and heavily diluted, but this one was so fast who knows what part went to the plant and what part to the river

AS reported by NYSDEC biologists, the generalized pattern is west end early and then a gradual shift to the east end as spawning time approaches. As to numbers, the 2106 report documents the drop off in BT and RT numbers both in the lake fishery and in the tribs. But they also indicate that the numbers are whole lake averages, and quality may be much better or worse depending opn where you are. "During 2016, there were time periods and locations of both excellent and poor fishing quality. The four most sought after species are Chinook salmon, brown trout, rainbow trout, and coho salmon, and regulations allow a daily harvest limit of “3 in any combination” of these four species. In 2016, charter boat fishing quality (catch rate=number of fish caught per hour of angling) for these four species combined increased 21% from 2015 (Figure 2). • The best Chinook salmon fishing quality among charter boats occurred during 2003-2016. Fishing quality in 2016 was similar to the 2003-2016 average, primarily due to relatively good fishing in the West Region during May through August, and during July for all regions. Angler reports of poor Chinook fishing quality during portions of the 2016 fishing season and/or in specific areas were confirmed by survey results. • Fishing quality for brown trout was near record high levels in recent years, however, for a second consecutive year, fishing quality in 2016 was among the lowest recorded and 16% below the long-term average. • Coho salmon fishing quality in 2015 and 2016 was well below the long-term average (-57% and -70%, respectively). • Rainbow trout fishing quality was at record high levels each year 2008-2014; however, fishing quality declined markedly during 2015 and 2016. The 2016 catch rate was 25% below the long term average. • Lake trout fishing quality improved each year (2008-2013) from the 2007 record low, and has remained relatively stable since." .

Any introduced species is " exotic" to an ecosystem, if it is perceived negatively it is generally referred to as "invasive." Maybe I am reading your point wrong, but what I believe you said was "The single biggest suppressor of young alewife is the older larger alewife. " If this were the case, the large alewife that existed prior to the stocking of pacific species should have controlled, and even possibly crashed, their own population in the nearly large predator free environment that existed then. And history says that did not happen. I'm certainly not faulting the managers in LO, and was much less willing to risk the possible ecosystem collapse that could happen if there are too many large predators and not enough food for them. If the steelhead are eating the "large alewife," certainly the kings are, too, and if there is such a surplus of large alewife, I would think we'd be seeing more of those huge kings of the past, but size and condition numbers do not say the salmon are necessarily "overfed."

Drove Empire Blvd at the South end of Irondequoit Bay yesterday. If it goes up much more, that road might need to close.

I know Steve LaPan would love to have that magic wand that instantly creates a couple of million fish that aren't already in the system! Then he could generate adults, why mess around with little ones! He could [probably use it to better control the weather, too!

C'mon Vince, if this were true, why did we need to add exotics from the west coast to chow down the alewives, if the large ones eat up all the small ones? The large alewifes should have eliminated the young of the year back in the days, and the population should have collapsed. Those of us who are old enough to have seen the real die offs of the 50's and 60's know that was not happening, and back then there was nearly nothing else for the big alewifes to chow on except the small ones, as perch, walleye, and Lake Trout were all at surpressed levels. I had heard that you espoused this theory of big alewife as small alewife suppressor, (sure,any random filter feeding eating machine will get some larval and YOY fish of its own species), but I do not think that dog hunts.