Underwater bridge comes above ground

How dry is it out there?

So dry a bridge normally well submerged below Guelph Lake is now nearly a foot above the water line. And that's no joke.

I went out this morning to have a look at the bridge -- which used to connect Conservation Road to Jones Baseline, before the whole valley was flooded in the early '70s to create the lake -- and found it acting as a fairly popular fishing platform.

One angler drowning worms with his sons told me he usually fishes from the bridge, but accesses it wearing his hip-waders and stands in water up to his waist.

No need for waders today.

Comments

[P.L.]

Happens every single year. Just a couple of months ahead of usual for this year.

[Doug]

But if you point out that it happens every year, you can't justify your position on climate change and some of the stupid policies you create to save the world at great expense.

[bob]

You both need a big helping of reality. Of course you can see the bridge. We're in the throes of a drought. Not the first time and certainly won't be the last. And as for it being a couple.of months ahead of schedule, the GRCA drains water systematically every year in the fall to accommodate the fall rains and then the spring melt and resulting runoff.