Lake Erie Nasty Tonight

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" Tuuk" <bangkokbob5001.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<xwStb.519$vF.36411@read2.cgocable.net>...
> What happens on the East side of Lake Erie (Buffalo area) when the SW winds
> push that much water? Would the Upper Niagara River fill up and more volume
> of water fall over the Falls? Then a less volume of water on average would
> have to fall for a few days after that? Cool

The amount of water going over the falls is regulated by the electric
generating plants. After midnight, you can actually see the difference
in the amount of water going over the falls, they fill a huge lake at
night to generate power. During the day, the amount of water going
over the falls is regulated by treaties between the U.S. and Canada.
If not for those treaties, both countries would be sucking it dry!

External Since: Sep 04, 2003 Posts: 126

Thanks for the info, interesting, so what would happen during a time when
there are very strong easterly winds, drawing the high seas to the western
side of the lake Erie and leaving the Buffalo side very low, I think its
only around 15 -20ft around there anyway. Should the water be bunched up at
the Western side of the lake, leaving very little volume on the Eastern
side, and the two huge hydro generating plants need their water, there could
be very very little left over for the falls itself???

"basskisser" <atl_man2 RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> " Tuuk" <bangkokbob5001 RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:<xwStb.519$vF.36411@read2.cgocable.net>...
  > > What happens on the East side of Lake Erie (Buffalo area) when the SW
winds
  > > push that much water? Would the Upper Niagara River fill up and more
volume
  > > of water fall over the Falls? Then a less volume of water on average
would
  > > have to fall for a few days after that? Cool
>
> The amount of water going over the falls is regulated by the electric
> generating plants. After midnight, you can actually see the difference
> in the amount of water going over the falls, they fill a huge lake at
> night to generate power. During the day, the amount of water going
> over the falls is regulated by treaties between the U.S. and Canada.
> If not for those treaties, both countries would be sucking it dry!