ROCHESTER (AP) -- The water level on Lake Ontario is beginning to drop after a wet spring pushed it a foot above average.
Officials with the St. Lawrence River Board of Control tell the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester that the U.S.-Canada agency has been maximizing the release of water from the lake into the river, causing the level to drop several inches over the past week.
Officials say lake levels should return to average by late August or September.
The control board regulates water releases at dams near where Lake Ontario flows into the St. Lawrence in northern New York.
High water levels this spring caused erosion along the lake's New York shoreline, submerged private docks and caused problems at marinas and boat launch ramps.
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