GLIN==> Press release: NYSG Lake Ontario Water Levels Update Now Available Electronically

PRESS RELEASE:  July 28, 2009
Contact: Chuck O¹Neill, cro4 at cornell.edu, 585-395-2638
 
NYSG Lake Ontario Water Levels Update Now Available Electronically
 
Brockport, NY ­ For Lake Ontario waterwatchers ­ and that includes
recreational boaters, marina operators, charter fishing guides, shoreline
property owners, environmentalists and commercial shipping interests - New
York Sea Grant (NYSG) has announced a new electronic ³Lake Ontario Water
Levels Update² fact sheet is available online as an Acrobat pdf file at
http://www/seagrant.sunysb.edu/glcoastal/WaterLevels-LOnt/Lake_Level_Update.
pdf. 
 
The Update contains information and graphs on:
Š current Lake Ontario water levels with previous and current years
Š 20th century average levels
Š historic high and low levels
Š a water level forecast as far as five months into the future
Š data on daily inflows and weekly average outflows
Š daily deviations from long-term daily average levels
Š a chart showing actual measured water levels against long-term monthly
high and low average levels for 1987 through the present.
 
New York Sea Grant Coastal Resources Specialist Charles ³Chuck² R. O¹Neill,
a Senior Extension Associate with Cornell Cooperative Extension, has studied
the water levels of Lake Ontario for 30 years. O¹Neill also leads NYSG's
aquatic invasive species programming and is the director of the New York
Invasive Species Clearinghouse.
 
³Lake levels in the Great Lakes systems impact shoreline erosion and erosion
control efforts as well as other physical resource management efforts such
as boating channel depths for recreational use and commercial shipping, the
health of the coastal wetlands and important fishery resources,² says
O¹Neill. 

³This online fact sheet provides Lake Ontario stakeholders with timely
access to a wealth of information that will be helpful as a coastal
development decision-making tool,² O¹Neill adds. ³Lake levels in the Great
Lakes are expected to show an overall decline as a result of climate
change.² 
 
The Lake Ontario water levels reporting will be updated monthly during the
ice-free months of the year and bi-monthly during the winter.
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