Second study on Lake Michigan water levels still held back

Journal Sentinel - July 8

Public hearings are wrapping up this week on a controversial International Joint Commission study exploring perplexingly low water levels on Lake Michigan over the past decade, and the three-month public comment period for the study expires in three weeks.

But the public has yet to see a second report that claims huge flaws in the two-year, $3.6 million study that blames nature - and not a 1960s U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredging project, as has been alleged - for erosion on the St. Clair River that triggered the water loss.

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