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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."
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The Army Corps of Engineers reports that four of the five Great Lakes were at record-high water levels this week.
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"What the dredging does is it increases the access and capacity of creeks, inlets, et cetera. And it uses the dredging material, in this situation, to increase a barrier to keep the high water from affecting the shoreline."
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The international body that helps regulate water levels on Lake Ontario and in the St. Lawrence River is forecasting a return to flood-level heights this summer.
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After Lake Ontario reached new heights in 2017, the state and many homeowners invested substantial amounts of money rebuilding the break walls and other barriers along their shorelines - only to see much of it washed away again in 2019.
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The index was designed after a similar tool created to help communities in the Gulf Coast region of the United States following Hurricane Katrina.
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Lake Ontario is still high - about 246 feet high. The Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board says they’re working to reduce levels as much as possible by spring.