Lake Superior lowest level 80 years - codger blames government

[Bill]

"Puffing on a pipe in a Grand Marais pub, retiree Ted Sietsema voiced a suspicion not uncommon in the villages along Superior's southern shoreline: The government is diverting the water to places with more people and political influence -- along Lakes Huron and Michigan and even the Sun Belt, via the Mississippi River.

"Don't give me that global warming stuff," Sietsema said. "That water is going west. That big aquifer out there is empty but they can still water the desert. It's got to be coming from somewhere."

That theory doesn't hold water, said Scott Thieme, hydraulics and hydrology chief with the Corps of Engineers district office in Detroit. Water does exit Lake Superior through locks, power plants and gates on the St. Marys River, but in amounts strictly regulated under a 1909 pact with Canada.

The actual forces at work, while mysterious, are not the stuff of spy novels, he said."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/08/03/superior.puzzle.ap/index.html

[nofear]

"Puffing on a pipe in a Grand Marais pub, retiree Ted Sietsema voiced a suspicion not uncommon in the villages along Superior's southern shoreline: The government is diverting the water to places with more people and political influence -- along Lakes Huron and Michigan and even the Sun Belt, via the Mississippi River.

"Don't give me that global warming stuff," Sietsema said. "That water is going west. That big aquifer out there is empty but they can still water the desert. It's got to be coming from somewhere."

That theory doesn't hold water, said Scott Thieme, hydraulics and hydrology chief with the Corps of Engineers district office in Detroit. Water does exit Lake Superior through locks, power plants and gates on the St. Marys River, but in amounts strictly regulated under a 1909 pact with Canada.

The actual forces at work, while mysterious, are not the stuff of spy novels, he said."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/08/03/superior.puzzle.ap/index.html

first off WHO CARES..secondly how is anything news when it comes from CNN..its just what someone in power wants you to believe..

[Bill]

first off WHO CARES..secondly how is anything news when it comes from CNN..its just what someone in power wants you to believe..

Well, I care, an 60 foot drop in Lake Superior, one of the largest masses of fresh water on the planet, sounds like one hell of a drought to me.

I like nature. And I like lakes.

And I figure CNN ain't lyin' about the 60 foot drop, (added - or whatever sized drop, I may be wrong about the 60 foot figure, my memory could be playing tricks on me) whatever their biases.

[Moby]

first off WHO CARES..secondly how is anything news when it comes from CNN..its just what someone in power wants you to believe..
You sound as nuts as the guy that thinks all the water is going west.

Other agencies news outlets are reporting the same thing.

[nofear]

You sound as nuts as the guy that thinks all the water is going west.

Other agencies news outlets are reporting the same thing.

oh my god im so sorry...then it must be true..maybe today CNN is going to do a new investigative report on the Oklahoma bombing or the waco murders of 17 kids..or maybe CNN is gonna do a special on how steel melts and fails due to paper and desks burning..Sheep will believe anything..

[Linkster]

The stupidest part of all of this is that records of lake levels have only existed since 1918 and this level that the lake is at isnt the lowest its ever been - its just approaching one low level that occured 80 years ago - when records first started being kept :lmao2:

Gee - I wonder how they explain the fact that the other lakes and the St Lawrence are all also 5 inches below their average levels - we must be draining them upstream into Canada :banghead:
Its called a DROUGHT stupid!