How are your water levels this spring ???

[haugy]

Ours is right where it needs to be. Bring on the heat.

[crystal waters]

here in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia the snow pack in the mountains is at 115 % of normal and they are concerned about some possible flooding conditions. Lakes will be in great shape!

[docdrs]

Water levels are about 2 ft down from high level but are norm for this time of year so as not to cause dock damage. Once the ice is gone they will throw a few logs on the dam and have the level up to normal levels in about 5 days. Gotta love it.

[DAFF]

Home lake is still down over 30 feet (was down over 70) -- and it's filling, but they will start draining it again soon. (the people that worry about 2 feet down make me say HUH?)

According to Darryl Enriquez of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, 1 inch of water depth in Lake Michigan accounts for 390 BILLION gallons of water. In the other lakes translates in billion of gallons as follows: Lake Superior, 550; Lake Huron, 400; Lake Erie, 170; and Lake Ontario, 130"

Add these numbers up and get 1 640 000 000 000 gallons per inch for the great lakes system !!! By estimation just Lake Erie would be 4 080 000 000 000 gallons to bring it back up to normal levels......

That one hell of a deficit to make up. Personally I would love to know how much man can infulence the drain rate of the lakes expecially in the Niagra region. Flow equal money WRT turbine water plants.

[86 century]

Ours are down 23.2 and 27 they are army corps lakes so they drain them for the winter.
We are hopeful they get them full this year. At the highest point last year one was down 5' the other was down 14'.

Put a hurting on the marinas neither one could get the fuel docks in and lost most of there annual income because the ramps where not long enough to get the big boats floating.