U.S. Army Corps: Great Lakes levels fall to historic lows
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says water levels on Lakes Michigan and Huron are nearly at record low levels because of drought and evaporation.
Experts consider Michigan and Huron to be hydrologically one lake because they’re connected on the northern end and have the same surface level. Corps officials said Wednesday the level at the end of
October is 1.5 inches above the historical average for the month.
Keith Kompoltowicz (kom-PAUL’-tuh-witz) is a hydrologist with the Amy Corps district office in Detroit. He says levels have been driven downward by lack of snowfall last winter and the dry summer.
All the lakes are below their long-term averages for October and lower than they were a year ago.
He says heavy rain this month isn’t enough to offset the decline.
Nov 1, 2012 at 6:18 a.m.
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When did we start measuring? If we took an average off of just the levels for the last 100 years how does that have anything to do with the historical levels when the lakes are millions of years old? It would be like averaging the yearly weather with statistics from a 1 minute time frame.
Oct 31, 2012 at 8:17 p.m.
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I'm confused....
"Corps officials said Wednesday the level at the end of October is 1.5 inches above the historical average for the month."
and
"All the lakes are below their long-term averages for October and lower than they were a year ago."
Oct 31, 2012 at 7:43 p.m.
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Who really cares? All stupid articles like this do is make the paranoid people panic. Now instead of running out of fresh water 400 billion years from now we might be cut a day or two short... oh geez I better go buy some bottled water.
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