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Article: Huge snowfall unlikely to boost Lake Michigan's water level
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 8, 2001
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Huge snowfall unlikely to boost Lake Michigan's water level
By JO SANDIN
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Monday, January 8, 2001
Despite the record amount of snow that's fallen here so far, Great
Lakes hydrologists aren't holding out a lot of hope for higher water
levels in Lake Michigan this spring.
Not even the hip-high snow drifts heaped along the Wisconsin-
Michigan shore will help because this winter's snow is too dry, says
Roger Gauthier, who watches such things for the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers in Detroit. Also, he said, much of the snow is in the wrong
place -- in Michigan and Wisconsin (instead of Minnesota) and on the
leeward side of Lake Michigan (across the lake from Wisconsin).