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Two political newcomers on Tuesday beat former GOP power broker George D. Maziarz in a three-way Republican primary election for two open Newfane Town Board seats. ....
Mike Desmond / WBFO News Olcott is ready to build multimillion-dollar defenses against Lake Ontario s high waters, which have hit shoreline communities so hard the last couple of years. Just in time for the construction, lake levels are low. Tourist time starts soon in the Niagara County hamlet of Olcott, long a destination with its beach, quaint little shops, the carousel and that summer feeling. The last two years, tourism was hit very hard by the high water levels of Lake Ontario. However, the lake level is low this year because it was a dry winter and the various agencies on both sides of the border have been dumping water down the St. Lawrence River for months. The level is so low, in fact, the plug is being put back in to raise the water level a few inches. ....
Outdoornews March 7, 2021 It was 35 years ago that I was hired by Niagara County to start up a brand-new program. I was brought in to serve as the county’s Sportfishing Promotion Program Coordinator. Yes, it was a mouthful to say. To shorten it up, Town of Newfane Supervisor Tim Horanburg would simply call me the “Fish Head.” Sometimes it would “Head Fish.” Either way, it was to create a program in the Niagara County Tourism office that would focus on the area’s angling resources. In the early years, it was focused on running the county’s two big fishing events – the Lake Ontario Pro-Am Salmon Team Tournament out of Wilson and Olcott, as well as the Niagara County Fall Classic Fishing Derby. Both needed a point person and that became me by default. I needed all the help I could get from the Niagara County Fisheries Development Board and the Niagara County Derby Board, two boards I became intimately involved with. ....
Credit Nick Lippa / WBFO High Lake Ontario water levels have been a costly problem the past half-decade. With record-setting years in 2017 and 2019, local businesses and shoreline property owners endured tens of thousands of dollars in property damages.
One way to lower levels is controlling outflow. International Lake Ontario-St.Lawrence River Board Member Tony David explains how they do it.
“Most people know that the levels on the upper Great Lakes have been very high and all of that water is making its way down into Lake Ontario, and eventually exits out the St. Lawrence River, David said. Those outflows are controlled by the Moses-Saunders Dam located between Massena and Cornwall, Ontario. So there s capacity to influence water levels. And the regulation plan, which is known as Plan 2014, prescribes how those outflows are regulated. So given that the excessive volumes of water that are coming into Lake Ontario, specifically from Lake E ....