Low Water Woes (pics of low water levels on your waterways)

[zipper]

After near record low snow levels last winter and a drought in New England this past summer, I have not seen the lake this low in 50 years. Barely made it thru on paddle board. Unless we trailer we have been stuck in the Inland Sea and not able to access the broad lake and Burlington area unless we travel north around the islands an hour out of our way. People actually metal detecting on dry lake bottom. The bridge is on U.S. Rt. 2 on town lines of Milton and S. Hero.

 

[bumpy]

I feel your pain. I wet slip our boat and had to put a mooring 30' from the end of my dock and tie the back close to the dock's end. Even then, my wife had to be in the bow so we didn't hit bottom before we left the mooring. Crazy low!

 

[Joe Hellaby]

I'm maybe about 200 miles to your west, we're also having the worse drought on record this summer (and the hottest).

 

[Zarrella]

That looks like a puddle....not a lake!

 

[zipper]

@Zarrella The puddle is supposed to be 120 miles long from Canada south to the Champlain Canal then to the Hudson River to NYC. The lake is within a foot of the record low set in 1908. Champlain has quite a history of early French and Indian, Revolutionary and War of 1812 naval battles. The State should dredge a channel, but too many environmentalists here, only needs a couple hundred feet. The broad lake is deeper and at its deepest 400ft. I am in the Inland Sea area which is 100ft. deep just a few hundred feet behind my boat. The area of no water is known as the Sand Bar and usually has 2-3ft. of water over it. Never have seen it without water. I look on the bright side, at least I did not foul a prop.

 

[zipper]

The problem still exists 5 years later, just a little earlier in the season now. If we need to get to the "Inland Sea", we trailer there. This happened during a bass fishing tournament yesterday.