Cayuga North End

[HomeOffice]

Does anyone know if the north end of Cayuga is ice free? And if the launch in town on the west side is open?

[rustyrat]

Still loads of ice as of tuesday when i drove by. dont know about the launch.

RR

[seasquirrel]

Doesnt matter, we can drink beer at the camp.lol

[traveling man]

Its probably going to be a week or 2 before the ice is gone.

[HomeOffice]

Beer at the camp, that never happens

[stoutner]

Ice is 100% gone and State Park launch is fine. Water is higher than I have ever seen.

[traveling man]

Yep, The ice is gone. I had a friend tell me today they closed the locks and raised the lake alot. I never thought it would happen so quick.

[rustyrat]

Yup all gone and yes the lake is tooooo hi for this time of year. I had to rescue my neighbors jet ski yesterday as it had floated off the lift and was headed to Ithaca.

we get a big blow and folks are going to have damage. Its about 8 inches above summer level.

RR

[lilboat]

Yup all gone and yes the lake is tooooo hi for this time of year. I had to rescue my neighbors jet ski yesterday as it had floated off the lift and was headed to Ithaca.

we get a big blow and folks are going to have damage. Its about 8 inches above summer level.

RR

The water levels are way up. The links below have info on the CNY water management.

See:http://www.canals.ny.gov/faq/oswego/netdata/cayuga-levels.pdf

and:http://www.canals.ny.gov

and:http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ny/nwis/rt

Ya may have to navigate for specific info.

[NitroMusky]

Yup. Seneca river is up about 6ft over summer levels. Water moves so slow at 3 rivers north of syr (nonexistent gradient) and is so flat that it would flood out a wide swath of the local area if they let it flow free this time of year. So they hold the water upstream of B'ville which has more capacity (albeit on people's lawns). With that at (beyond) capacity, cayuga lake gets it's turn next.

This is the link to a USGS site a little down river of the lake.

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ny/nwis/uv?site_no=04235600

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[lilboat]

I've been out to camp on Cross lake last 2 Fridays to check on things and water is way up, as expected with the winter being as it was. Cross Lake was still iced up Friday, which may help with waves, but there sure is a lot of H2O in the system now.

A neighbors swim platform stored in his lawn is now about 6 camps down near us.

Hope all this H2O makes it to the Big O uneventfully.