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dlucier
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Initially Posted - 02/25/2005 :  15:58:12  Show Profile
According to a [url="http://www.detnews.com/2005/metro/0502/25/A01-100532.htm"]Detroit News' article, "Storms raise the Lakes, hopes of Metro boaters"[/url], it looks like we'll have a bit more water on the Great Lakes this coming season. Lake Erie is up 17" over the same time last year...Yahoooo!

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Response Posted - 02/25/2005 :  17:30:00  Show Profile
The lakes are so big, I wouldnt think youd notice the higher water level. Are there alot of shallow areas?
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Ben - FL
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Response Posted - 02/25/2005 :  19:10:09  Show Profile  Visit Ben - FL's Homepage
That's a good thing? Sure hope it is not indicative of what sea level may do! But then again maybe I could moore Chick-a-pea in the front yard.
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 02/25/2005 :  20:28:13  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Capt. Kurt</i>
<br />The lakes are so big, I wouldn't think you'd notice the higher water level. Are there alot of shallow areas?
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Yes, especially along the shorelines. On a cruise last year, I hit bottom almost a mile from shore.

Lately, the average depth of my marina is around 5-6ft and on certain windy days this depth can be reduced to 3-4ft which is not good. For the last few years at the marina where I haul in/out, I've had to drag my keel along the mucky bottom for about 100ft before getting to open water. This year it'll be smooth sailing.
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Charlie Vick
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Response Posted - 02/25/2005 :  21:50:58  Show Profile
What a pain in the butt!
You'd think the Great Lakes (which really are small oceans) would have no problem with depths. But what do I know about the Great Lakes.
Sometimes sailing on a small lake in Oklahoma isn't such a bad thing.
I'm glad to see your depths are going up and you won't have as many problems this year.
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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 02/26/2005 :  08:52:38  Show Profile  Visit Arlyn Stewart's Homepage
Lots of rocks around the Great Lakes and changing water depths make some that were visible, awash slightly below the surface.

The increasing water depth is good news for the great many marinas as dredging operations were really demanding.

One of the finest marinas I've experienced is at Spanish, Ontario and their front channel was very difficult to keep open with the low water conditions. They did have a back channel along a river channel but it was limited to about 5 feet which kept larger sailboats away.

This should be very good news for them.
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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 02/26/2005 :  10:12:09  Show Profile  Visit aeckhart's Homepage
Except for riverine harbors where silting is a problem, Lake Superior hasn't had the significant depth problem that the lower lakes have had. Having said that, I could motor my boat to my dock and tie off for short periods in the 94-96 boating seasons, but can no longer do so because of the lower, near norm, water levels. We obviously had unusually high water levels then, but much more shore erosion.

I understand that Lake Michigan has had islands appear where none were thought to exist before the low water years. Some of these were/are supposedly 6 to 7 feet above lake level.

I am sure Don will attest to the fact that low water levels in Lake Erie may have had an adverse impact on the fabulous pollution recovery in that lake in the past twenty years. Scientists have recently found "unexplained pollution "hot spots" in some portions of Lake Erie, which, from an environmental standpoint, was concidered to be a dead lake thirty years ago. So, high water may have a greater impact than just good boatng grounds.

Al
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