Lake Levels Discussed

There were mixed feelings how water levels are being managed on Rainy Lake.

About forty people attended a meeting by the International Rainy Lake Board of Control in International Falls last night.

The board's U.S. engineering advisor Ed Eaton says nature played a big role on lake levels this year.

"Spring and early summer inflows were strong this year," says Eaton. "That was due to a combination of the record-setting precipitation over the winter from the November to March period and above normal, but not extraordinary, persistent spring rain fall."

Some property owners, who suffered shoreline damage this year, felt the board's so-called "upper rule curve" which set optimum lake levels over the year were set to high.

Others felt the board was doing a good job managing levels.