Basshound Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Lake Erie and Niagara River waters will soon start warming. http://www.buffalonews.com/102/story/50569.html Heads up for icebergs on the lower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Chopin Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 It's gone now. If you look right now at the iceboom camera(3:32) you can see the tail end being towed away. So there will be lots of ice for a couple of days and then smallie fishing on Erie!! Wahoooooooooo(I know it will be more than a couple of days for 240 square miles of ice to disappear but a guy can always dream can't he?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Andrews Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 It's amazing just to go watch some of those huge sheets of ice crashing into the Peace Bridge. If your out this way drop in and check it out and bring a camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Chopin Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 I saw a big chunk last weekend. It was pretty cool to see the strength of the river and the bridge break apart ice that looked 3 feet thick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwl Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 lots of ice coming down the river as we speak, just got back from fishing, and can see it when I pulled into my driveway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Chopin Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 http://www.iceboom.nypa.gov/ Little boats are working hard....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Watson Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Thanks Tom, I was trying to find that link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rockfish Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Most of the ice has moved out of Erie, except for a few stubborn spots on the American side still making it's way down the river. Haven't seen Weatherman Smerchly's ice report so had to do his job for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest IBC Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 knock on wood this is the last of the ice we are seeing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BrownBomber Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but what the heck is an iceboom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulyboy83 Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but what the heck is an iceboom? I was wondering the same thing. Something us non-niagara region guys don't know much about I guess. PB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardl33 Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 It's a boom that is inserted from the US to Canada to prevent the ice from going over the falls and creating an ice bridge in the gorge where the ice used to stay stuck. Here is a link for more info. Niagara Frontier Ice Bridge Here is what the Niagara River Looked like before they used the ice boom. Pretty hard to fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Chopin Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 http://www.ijc.org/rel/boards/niagara/ice_glace-info_e.pdf This will explain it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Andrews Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 I dropped in on the Peace Bridge today to watch the ice burgs hit the bridge. It's not all that heavy yet and is breaking off in strips. Those break up pretty quick and the ice actually looks kinda yellow and soft. As I understood the boom also held ice flows back from entering the power plants and doing damage. I'd love to see the ice bridge again. I'll add a few video clips and pics later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest aniceguy Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 dang there might go alternative fishing plans for the lower saturday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Google up Peace Bridge Traffic Cam , and you can see the ice flowing on a live video cam . Lots of big chunks a few minutes ago . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BrownBomber Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 Thanks for the replies guys...I thought it was something like that but I wasn't sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basshound Posted April 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 Looks like its really let loose now, the upper looks totally full of lake ice. http://www.iceboom.nypa.gov/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Scavo Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 I was wondering the same thing. Something us non-niagara region guys don't know much about I guess. PB THE FACTS ON THE LAKE ERIE ICE BOOM The ice boom is 2,680 metres long. It is installed every winter to reduce ice accumulation on the Niagara River. It is made up of 22 spans, a series of steel pontoons linked together and anchored to the bottom of the river by steel cables. Each span has up to 11 pontoons, each about 9.1 metres long. Now you know. T>Scavo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulyboy83 Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 Thanks for the info guys! Very cool and extremely interesting! PB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rockfish Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 The reason for the boom is also to avoid this at the Falls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Chopin Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 http://filebox.vt.edu/users/aschaeff/falls/falls.html Losing a bridge in 1938 also resulted from too much ice buildup. 80ft deep!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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