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"In January when the shipping season is over, do exactly what you did last winter - physically let out as much water as you can because you don’t know what’s going to happen next spring."
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“They’re not being transparent enough, they’re not engaging the stakeholders and the shoreline communities and they’re not getting the data they need from the appropriate sources like the shoreline communities."
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By lowering the outflows from Lake Ontario, the Board hopes to make navigation in the St. Lawrence River safer and raise the water levels in Lake St. Louis.
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Water levels throughout the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River System are expected to peak below the record-high levels seen in 2019.
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The International Joint Commission says it's doing everything it can to mitigate rising lake levels but it still might not be enough.
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"We were able to contribute to lake levels being fairly stable through the month of March compared with historic records."
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It is a set of guidelines for how high and low water levels in Lake Ontario and the Saint Lawrence are allowed to get.
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"You get double speak. You get half justifications for things, and we’re not getting action from them. So today, the gloves come off."
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"This is our dream home, this is our house forever, but if you have to put up with this every year, every other year, it’s not a whole lot of fun living here."
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“All the water we’re letting out will lessen the impact down the road; it doesn’t guarantee there won’t be flooding but I can guarantee there will be less of it."