Lake Ontario St. Lawrence River Alliance

08/17/2023

The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Adaptive Management Committee (the GLAM Committee) is seeking input from property owners along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River shorelines who were impacted by high and/or low water levels in 2022 and/or 2023.

The survey should take about 10 minutes to complete and will be open until further notice.

2022 Water Level Impacts Questionnaire

English: www.surveymonkey.com/r/GLAM2022

2023 Water Level Impacts Questionnaire

English: www.surveymonkey.com/r/GLAM2023

The GLAM Committee looks forward to receiving responses that reflect the local concerns of property owners along the diverse shoreline of the upper Great Lakes, Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. The GLAM Committee will use your input to better understand water level impacts seen in individual communities. The information you share will also help to assess the performance of the regulation plans that are used to manage outflows from Lake Superior and Lake Ontario.

Since natural factors such as the amount of precipitation are the primary drivers of water level changes and extreme water levels, adjustments to the Lake Superior or Lake Ontario outflow regulation strategies are unlikely to be able to eliminate the chance of similar impacts occurring in the future. However, understanding what the primary concerns are from property owners and ensuring the simulation models used by the GLAM Committee accurately reflect those issues is critical for the Adaptive Management process.

For more information on the questionnaire please visit: https://ijc.org/glam/respond-questionnaires. You can also reach out to the Committee by email [email protected] if you would like more information or you can visit their website: https://ijc.org/glam.

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02/22/2023

Robert Gioia, a long-time civic leader in the Buffalo region, has been nominated as a U.S. commissioner to the International Joint Commission.

Robert Gioia was the president of the Oishei Foundation.

02/19/2023

The International Lake Ontario – St. Lawrence River Board (Board) is seeking your input. The Board would like to collect information specifically related to the reduced outflows from Lake Ontario October 7 through October 10, 2022 to support boat haul out and learn more about where people access t...

01/28/2023

We are excited that the IJC has initiated an expedited review of Plan 2014, and plan to make changes in 2024! Due to our work with the IJC, elected officials, and our litigation initiatives, we believe that LOSLRA has been instrumental in getting the IJC to agree to this expedited review process.

As you can see from the attached graph, Plan 2014 expands the potential lake level ranges far beyond previous Plan 1958DD actual levels. Already we have seen incredible high and low water conditions in just the first six years of Plan 2014. As projected by the Lake Ontario – St. Lawrence River Board study in 2006, we potentially will see high water levels up to 251.4’ above sea level and levels of 240.0’ on low water years.

During 2023, LOSLRA will be pushing hard for meaningful improvements to Plan 2014.

Learn more at https://www.loslra.org/