Lake St. Clair Is Overflowing!
 

Lakes Michigan, Huron and St.Clair at highest levels since 1918. I've never seen anything like this. Lake St. Clair is surrounded by sandbags with water over some parking lots, roads and lawns. Docks at Brown's Bar are slightly underwater. We couldn't see the docks at all when we pulled up. It's crazy!https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...70d120c3b9.jpg

Pretty high in Lake Huron/Saginaw Bay as well. The dock I have that 10 years ago had to cut steps 4' down into it to enter boat is now only 6" above the water. When a moderate Northeast wind blows, the water level comes up enough to wash over the subdivision access road next to one of our canals. Tis crazy. Went on the Saginaw River a week ago and had to come off plane for the railroad bridges. Only had 3' of clearance idling under the beams. Man, I would hate to be a guy blowing under them at night and take one of the nav lights that hang a good 1-1.5' down from bottom beams to the face. Middle Grounds beach on the river is almost gone, can fit maybe 4 boats there and when I beached, beak of my boat was into the trees....

Lake Erie is up as well. I used to have about 40 feet or so of sandy beach to the waterline and now we are lucky to have 10 to 15 feet. There are alot of guys that cant make it up the rivers or get there boats out to the lake because they cant get under the bridges

Welcome to our world, unfortunately. The St Lawrence Seaway and Lake Ontario also met an all time record for high water this season. Since Plan 2014 took effect in 2017 we have had 2 out of 3 years of record flooding due to the mismanagement of the International Joint Commission (IJC https://ijc.org/en). An unelected and unaccountable body of American and Canadian bureaucrats who control the outflow of all the great lakes waters through the Robert Moses Dam in Massena, NY. The IJC has ceded common sense to tree hugger groups like Save the River (http://www.savetheriver.org/) who welcome the high waters in order to replenish "marsh lands." The 1000 Islands and Cape Vincent to Rochester are a disaster area. Billions in lost revenue and property damage. No wake zones again with lots of debris floating downstream (we've pulled out telephone poles, firewood/stumps and docks!). The Moses dam opened in 1958 and until Plan 2014 there was only one epic flood event in the seventies. Time to get politically active and push back against these radicals nudniks who blame everything on Global Warming.

Are there any no-wake restrictions on either the St. Clair River or Lake St. Clair due to the high water?

Agree ING. I am in the 1000 islands. Complete joke. Agree with everything you said. Its terrible

Experienced the same situation in the early 70's and 1986/7 and had to build up my side dock 12". To the other extreme I've seen aerial pictures from early 1960's where Anchor Bay was virtually a separate body of water due to low lake levels. There was exposed bottom land from Metro Beach to the South Channel.

I believe it is and its all Obama's fault......

The river level is getting closer to the bottom of the boardwalk in St. Clair. Will the boat races be impacted? Just three weeks away.

just got back from doing a 2200 mile tour around St. Clair, Huron, Superior an Michigan in my motorhome . . . they are all high. WAY high and at one point the level in Erie came up high enough to touch the foundation of my shop. The high mark for that day was 90.5" over datum and the record is i believe 96" which means if we hit a record my floor will be wet . . . thank god i work on stuff that floats lol. Actually i doubt we will see that at this point (knocking on wood as i type}

this guy? Attachment 576402

I'm thinking his wife was on the bigger boat!

they should of put the drives in trailer trim at 4k and hosed him down

Those pictures are crazy. Glad I still have a pair of crocs for walking the docks. I was told that police were writing lots of wakezone violations in the channels but we didn't venture up that far. Went all the way to the back of little Muscamoot Bay to swim where water is usually thigh high and it was now upper chest high. News this morning says Lake St Clair, Erie and Ontario have now broken all time high level records kept since 1919

We are further north than you guys and there is high water throughout northern Ontario as a result of heavy winter snow loads and a really wet Spring. On Lake Nipissing we are just starting to see our docks that have been under water for well over two months.

This picture was on social media
Location - public dock at Oliphant on the west shore of the Bruce Peninsula on Lake Huron, right now the water is probably up a few inches since early June, depending on the wind.
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When was this Tim?

Where on Nipissing are you? I'm in Callander Bay beside the yacht club.

I'm on the south side of Sandy Island near Wigwam Channel. The first place west of Tall Pines. We seldom get down to Callander Bay, but if you are going by say hello.
Phil

I know the place, we are down that way all the time. have a cottage right beside Campbell's Bay as well. I'll be in a 34 Nor-Tech with triple outboards, will say hello next time i'm down. headed to Shuswap for lunch this Saturday.

Erik 7054991851

Kinda hard to miss.:cool: