Publications

Board publications include reports, fact sheets, infographics, and presentations. Contractor reports are documents created on behalf of, or in coordination with, the IJC or its boards. Government reports are documents developed by US or Canadian local/provincial/state/federal government that are of interest to the IJC or board.

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The GLAM Committee is developing a Phase 2 strategy to guide the collection of critical information needed for the Board to evaluate the performance of Plan 2014 in response to extreme high and low water levels and the variability exacerbated by climate change and make a recommendation to the IJC on...
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The Great Lakes – St. Lawrence River Adaptive Management Committee (GLAM Committee) of the International Joint Commission (IJC) began Phase 1 of the expedited review of Plan 2014 in February 2020. The objective of Phase 1 was to assess flow releases under the International Lake Ontario – St...
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Creation of the PAG An 18-member Public Advisory Group, or PAG, was formed to ensure that the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Adaptive Management (GLAM) Committee was exposed to a wide range of observations and opinions about the impacts of extreme high water as they worked on Phase 1 of the...
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How the expedited review began In February 2020, the International Joint Commission (IJC) ordered an expedited review of Plan 2014, the management plan for Lake Ontario outflows. The review is being done by the IJC’s Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Adaptive Management Committee, known as the GLAM...
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What is the Decision Support Tool? The Decision Support Tool is an interactive, computer-based tool that brings together a collection of data to help inform decisions regarding outflows from Lake Ontario when water levels are at extremes in the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River basin. It was created...
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Purpose of the Phase 1 study The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Adaptive Management Committee, or GLAM Committee, has completed Phase 1 of the expedited review of Plan 2014. Since February 2020, the GLAM Committee has obtained and analyzed a great deal of additional data on the impacts of extreme...
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“Water is not a resource; it’s a life-source” In February 2020, the International Joint Commission (IJC), the binational organization formed under the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty between Canada and the United States of America, ordered an expedited review of Plan 2014, the management plan for Lake...
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This document provides a general summary of the questionnaire responses from 2017 with a focus on flooding impacts, erosion impacts, shore protection impacts, business impacts and overall impacts. The GLAM Committee will continue to improve model assessment tools and understanding of shoreline...
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The IJC’s Great Lakes - St Lawrence River Adaptive Management (GLAM) Committee has prepared a review of impacts across all sectors that were affected by high water levels in 2017 as well as an assessment of how the regulation of outflows from Lake Ontario impacted levels throughout the system...
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The IJC’s Great Lakes St Lawrence River Adaptive Management (GLAM) Committee has prepared a review of impacts across all sectors that were affected by high water levels in 2017 as well as an assessment of how the regulation of outflows from Lake Ontario impacted levels throughout the system...
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