Lake Champlain is a Great Lake
by The other Great lakes should not object. Lake Champlain has the best sea monster. There is no evidence Champ has chewed bridge piers.
There was a controversy, some time ago, when Lake Champlain was briefly designated a Great Lake, due to an error in a Congressional bill. The other lakes objected, apparently, in some bogus, stuck up, snobby way.
Although all of the lakes drain into the St. Lawrence, they claimed Lake Champlain wasn’t big enough. We have to admit it is smaller than the other so called Great Lakes, yet, with a depth of over 300 feet it is deeper than Lake Erie, which has a maximum of 210.
Things change. Have you seen what’s happened to the Aral Sea? It has pretty much disappeared due to diversion of water for irrigation. The world needs to protect its lakes from destruction.
Where does the antipathy to Lake Champlain being a Great Lake come from? Stingy, lake folk, I think. Not from any fear of Sea Monsters. There is no danger of Champ, the Lake Champlain Sea Monster, and her progeny, getting up the St. Lawrence, and invading the other lakes. She’s too big to stow away on any ship, and is very happy in Lake Champlain, where she is rarely observed bothering anyone. Maybe she ventures out into the ocean, we cannot say.
The Lake Champlain Bridge at Crown Point has deteriorated so badly it had to be closed, inconveniencing thousands. It’s high time the Feds take over and send the Army Corps of Engineers in there to fix that bridge, since New York is unable to even clean up graffiti, much less keep track of deteriorating piers. Forget about litter, or cutting the grass on its own property—New York has never been able to handle that. It’s bogged down taking care of public housing that could be owned and operated by its own inhabitants in a safer, more beneficial manner.
So, yes, if Lake Champlain needs to be designated a Great Lake in order to preserve it, please, just make it happen. Its not like I’m asking our super lobbied legislators to extend that designation to the Finger Lakes or Oneida. Not now, anyway.
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