What's draining two Great Lakes?

The Detroit News recently ran this story: What's draining two Great Lakes? - 03/12/06 - The Detroit News, about how the Army Corp of Engineers dredging of the St. Clair River in Port Huron is causing water levels in Lakes Huron and Michigan to drop. According to the story lake levels have dropped 32 inches since the 1880's. The following is the letter I sent to them in response to this important story:

The solution to declining lake levels and an economic boost to Michigan and the Great Lakes region may be the Damming of them. In Port Huron, at the mouth of the Saint Clair River, a dam and a lock system could be built. This would regulate the amount of water-flow out of the lakes and generate pure green: environmentally and financially. This would have a three-fold effect on Michigan and Ontario: 1.,Generate a lot of construction jobs 2.,Make Michigan and Ontario world leaders in Green Water-Power and attract people back to the region 3., Solve the Lakes continual water-level problems. Port Huron is of immediate concern because of harmful dredging done for commercial shipping purposes, but other areas like the St. Mary's river or the Saint Laurence Seaway may be target locations also. The Great Lakes are an enormous and vital resource that we should be exploiting for the betterment of our state economy and the environment.

I agree with the Detroit News that this is an important bit of News that everybody living in the Great lakes region should know about. Now we need some serious talk about the Great Lakes! future.

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