IJC Holds Final Informational Session in Massena

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The International Joint Commission (IJC) is finding resistance wherever it presents its Plan 2007 along the St. Lawrence River.

Dalton Foster of the International Water Levels Coalition (IWLC) says that the IJC needs to implement Plan B+ immediately because it is what is best for the environment and that Plan 2007 does not consider the residents that live along the St. Lawrence River.

Save the River, the NYS Department fo Environmental Conservation (DEC) and other environmental organizations and state lawmakers are in full support of Plan B+, but the IJC continues to say the plan has major drawbacks.

The IJC says that testing on Plan B+ has shown that its implementation would result in potentially catastrophic shoreline damage along the southern shores of Lake Ontario.

“Plan B+ also creates losses for some of the other interests in the basin, noticibly for those living along the shoreline,” said Frank Bevacqua, IJC Public Affairs representative.

“The commissioners (of the IJC) do want to go to Plan B+, but B+ causes damage to people who live along the shores of Lake Ontario,” added Bill Werick, another IJC consultant.

The IJC knows that the plan is better for the environment than Plan 2007, but for the time being Plan 2007 is being looked at as an interim water management plan until problems with Plan B+ can be mitigated.

Public comment on the plan will be accepted until July 11.

You can review the IJC’s Plan 2007 here.

Rachel Kent reports:

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