Why is the water so high?

[drcoastline]

[Neilk]

Sounds terrible for the homeowners and businesses on the lake. Why did the govt feel a need to change the way the water was being managed?

[Bugsinrugs]

Government and nature.....unpredictable!

[Tervuren]

https://www.ijc.org/en/loslrb/lake-ontario-outflows-continue-be-adjusted-balance-high-water-levels

The International Lake Ontario – St. Lawrence River Board specifies the outflows from Lake Ontario, according to Plan 2014 as required in the 2016 Supplementary Order from the International Joint Commission. This plan was agreed to by the United States and Canada in December 2016 in an effort to improve environmental performance while maintaining most of the benefits provided to other interests by the previous Plan 1958-D, which was in use since 1963.

[id10t]

[KFC911]

Makes no cents...follow the money tho'

[Tervuren]

I have read the documents in question.

Although I lack the information to say for certain I believe that the high water footage would still be around old plan or new plan.

There was nothing in that video that indicated the exact problems with the new plan.

This is more a case of highest recorded influx in 150 years.

[GH85Carrera]

The main reason, it rained a lot.