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Tri-lakes levels way up


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And flood warnings for the Parry Sound and Muskoka region.

 

Published Tuesday, April 21, 2015 12:39PM EDT
Last Updated Tuesday, April 21, 2015 6:42PM EDT

There are flooding concerns in the Muskoka Region a day after heavy rains pounded the area.

Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources has issued a flood watch for Muskoka, Parry Sound and a north-west portion of Haliburton County.

The MNR says water flow at area lakes and rivers continue to climb due to the rainfall received on Monday, and the continued melting of the snow pack.

 

http://barrie.ctvnews.ca/flood-watch-issued-for-muskoka-region-parry-sound-1.2337661

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Whoever made the call did the right thing.. but only because of good luck maybe... a dry spring and it could have been a different story... the Niagara conservation authority tries to do the same predictions but on a much smaller scale and with bad results in a.lot of cases..

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I drove along the Otonabee River south of Lakefield yesterday and parts of the river are still low while other sections are about normal. Looks like their adjusting the water flows between the dams to get everything regulated.

 

For anyone that doesn't know, the river runs between Lake Katchawanooka at Lakefield and Rice Lake and for the most part is only a couple hundred feet wide. Basically, the entire Trent system has to be funnelled through this narrow river into Rice Lake and eventually into the Bay of Quinte and personally, I think the guys normally do a pretty darned good job of regulating it. If they let too much water through they flood everything below Lakefield and if they hold it back, there's flooding in the northern lakes.

 

If they flood the northern lakes, their told their doing a lousy job of regulating the flow, and if they flood the southern part, their told their doing a lousy of regulating the flow.

 

Sort of a lose lose job if you ask me.

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