Michigan City, New Buffalo wrestle with low Lake Michigan water level

February 20, 2013 - 13:42 — glbm

MICHIGAN CITY | Record low levels on Lake Michigan have left waterfront communities in the region and throughout the Great Lakes scrambling to save their summer boating seasons.

In New Buffalo, for example, emergency dredging on a roughly 1,000-foot stretch of the Galien River is planned in the spring from the Whittaker Street bridge to the city's public boat launch.

Bob Stratton, owner of Service 1 Marine outside New Buffalo, says the water is shallow enough that he wonders if large boats will be able to make it into their slips without running aground.

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