Lake Ontario’s water level is higher than average and expected to continue to rise for weeks.
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Federal watchdog agency to review Plan 2014
The federal government’s congressional watchdog agency is taking a look at a controversial plan that regulates outflows from Lake Ontario into the St. Lawrence Seaway. The General Accounting Office is reviewing Plan 2014, the regulatory plan that went into effect a few years ago. Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand called for the review earlier […]
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Preparing for the inevitable: City looks at climate change
[UPDATED AND REVISED 01/26/17] Climate change is such an all-encompassing problem that there’s no escaping it. Sure, people, corporations, and governments across the world should be doing everything they can to attack the fundamental problem: the human-generated carbon emissions that are causing Earth to warm at an accelerated rate. But as a planet, we took […]
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Town’s rained out and tapped out
On June 15, 3.3 inches of rain fell within 40 minutes in the Ontario County town of Richmond. The “gully washer,” as Supervisor Ralph Angelo calls it, busted out 22 culverts along town roads, with East Lake Road taking the worst hit. If that sounds familiar, there’s good reason. On one July day last year, […]
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Get used to the downpours
Rochester has had a pretty wet July. Going by National Weather Service records, the area has had 7.51 inches of rain this month through yesterday, when the normal level is 3.11 inches. And yesterday’s intense rains broke the daily record: the 2.42 inches measured by the NWS at the Rochester airport topped the 1966 high […]
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Ignoring climate warnings comes at a cost
New York City had warnings that, given a strong enough storm, parts of the city faced serious flooding. Superstorm Sandy made those predictions come true. Now, city officials and the federal government are talking about what they can do to prevent that sort of flooding in the future. Climate researchers project that sea levels will […]
