A number of groups across the border in the United States fighting Plan 2014, which controls water levels in Lake Ontario, used Earth Week to bring attention to their cause.
Plan 2014 is under the control of the International Joint Commission regulating water flows from lake Ontario into the St. Lawrence River at Moses-Saunders Dam between Cornwall, Ontario and Massena, New York.
Maggie King who lives across the lake between Watertown and Syracuse in Upper New York state says the main goal of an online campaign was to spread the word about how the flooding is affecting communities.
King tells Quinte News her yard is already flooded this spring and it’s getting worse.
The Coalition to Fight Plan 2014 in the United States has been fundraising to hire a law firm.
Officials of two of the groups, President Jim Shea of Lake Ontario St. Lawrence River Alliance and President Dave McDowell of Save our Sodus sent Quinte News this statement of intent:
“The purpose of the legal fund is to hire a powerful Washington law firm to assess the best legal and legislative options to force enactment of lake level management which provides reasonable protection for shoreline landowners against damagingly high water.”
The Coalition to Fight Plan 2014 has indicated that: “Acccording to Facebook statistics, our (Earth Day) post reached more than 20,000 people.”
The group says it has raised hundreds of dollars, but tells Quinte News it prefers not to name a specific number.
Meanwhile, President Sarah Delicate of United Shoreline Ontario recently told Quinte News her group is not involved in the fight across the border but supports the cause.
