Great Lakes water levels trended downward in September. The pins on the maps below reveal plots of the current year’s daily lake levels (blue) compared with last year’s levels (black) and last ...

This story was originally published July 27, 2013 as part of the series Uncharted Waters. They might be called the Great Lakes, but the five bodies of water are, in a sense, one giant, slow-motion ...

The Great Lakes aren’t in just a normal water decline mode. They are now going down faster than usual and putting some distance between current water levels and last year’s record water levels.

Decreased ice cover on the Great Lakes, probably caused by increasing air and water temperatures and high winds, is a major culprit in lowering water levels, which have hurt the shipping industry ...

Lake Ontario’s water level is the most up-and-down of any of the Great Lakes. Right now Lake Ontario sits at 19 inches below the record high water level. Lake Ontario's past and future water levels.

The Great Lakes Water Levels Boards of the International Joint Commission have provided an updated summary of current ... the winter maximum that sometimes limits flows to 2,410 cms (85,108 cfs) ...

Between 2010 and 2017, there were approximately 50 drowning fatalities each year associated with rough surf and strong ...

Blue Flow Great Lakes Corp. is holding water and beach safety clinics at Gary’s Wells Street Beach this summer.

State and federal officials have dedicated millions to figuring out how much water is, and isn't, flowing to the Great Salt Lake, including $3 million from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to ...

Some good news…the water levels of the Great Lakes are a bit above average levels for July, but they have come down from 3 years ago when we were at record high levels. We don’t expect any ...

As of May 1, the Great Lakes holds about 38.9 trillion gallons more water than the long-term May average, enough to fill 58.8 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.