DIVERSION OF GREAT LAKES WATER. PART 2. ECONOMIC IMPACTS

The potential hydrologic and economic impacts of large-scale diversions of Great Lakes water are described in a pair of new reports jointly published by the UW Sea Grant institute and the UW-Madison Institute for Environmental Studies. the team's four-year UW Sea Grant study involved the development of hydrologic and economic models to evaluate the effects of hypothetical water diversions ranging from 5,000 to 30,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) from Lakes Superior, Michigan-Huron and Erie. The first report, Diversion of Great Lakes Water, Part 1: Hydrologic Impacts addresses the estimated effects of such diversions on lake levels and water flow. The second report, Diversion of Great Lakes Water, Part 2: Economic impacts, assesses the monetary effects the hypothetical diversions would have on Great Lakes shipping and hydropower industries.