This summer's distressingly low water levels on the upper Great Lakes have a lot of people scratching their heads, but a group of Canadian property owners is pointing the finger straight at the Army Corps of Engineers - an agency it says is largely responsible for a 3-foot drop in the long-term average levels on Lakes Michigan and Huron.Two years ago, the Georgian Bay Association released a study that claimed a 1962 Army Corps dredging project accidentally created an ever-increasing erosion problem on the bottom of the St Clair River, the main outflow for Lakes Michigan and Huron.
The result during the past few decades was the average loss of about 845 million gallons per day from the lakes, according to the study, which warned that the riverbed erosion would only get worse if something was not done to fix it.
Things have since indeed gotten worse, according to the group of homeowners that shelled out $200,000 for the initial study, which was conducted by the coastal engineering firm Baird & Associates.
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