GLIN==> Media call at 10 am EDT on Upper Great Lakes Water levels

Media Advisory

WHO:    International Upper Great Lakes Study

WHAT:   Release of the draft report, Impacts on Upper Great Lakes Water
Levels: St. Clair River

WHEN:   Friday, May 1, 10 am - 11 am EDT

WHERE: Teleconference/Webex presentation for media only

NOTE:    To receive call-in number and URL for the presentation, members
of the media should contact 

              IUGLS Public Information Officer Jill Wingfield at 
wingfieldj at ottawa.ijc.org or at 734-223-3121

 

WHY:   For the past two years, more than 100 Canadian and U.S.
scientists and engineers have worked together to address important
questions posed by the International Joint Commission (IJC) regarding
the St. Clair River system:  

*	Has the conveyance or water-carrying capacity of the St. Clair
River changed, and if so, why?  
*	What effect could an altered flow have on water levels in the
upper Great Lakes?  
*	What other factors (such as climate) may be affecting the change
in water levels?  
*	What actions, if any, should be taken by governments to remedy
concerns about low water levels?  

 

To be released on May 1, 2009 for a 60-day public comment period, the
draft report, Impacts on Upper Great Lakes Water Levels: St. Clair
River, will begin to bring the answers to these questions into focus.
After incorporating public comments and the results of additional
research, the Study Board will finalize the report for transmission to
the International Joint Commission in the fall of 2009.  

 

Funded equally by the U.S. and Canadian governments, the Study is being
conducted by the bi-national, independent International Upper Great
Lakes Study Board at the request of the IJC under the authority of the
Boundary Waters Treaty.  This draft report is the first output of the
Study, which will continue to examine whether the regulation plan for
outflows from Lake Superior through the compensating works and power
dams on the St. Marys River at Sault Ste. Marie might be improved to
take into consideration changing interests and changing climate.  The
final report of the Study is expected early in 2012.

 

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