- Dates
- 1986-08 – 1986-10
- Kind
- Announcement
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmenthydrologyshorelinesdisastercommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The November 1986 Beaver Beacon reprinted a warning that high Great Lakes levels and continued precipitation could increase Beaver Island shoreline erosion and flooding during fall storms.
Evidence limits
This is a reprinted forecast and advisory, not a calibrated hydrologic dataset, engineering assessment, or later storm-outcome record.
Sources
- Reports above-normal Great Lakes precipitation and levels, a wetter-than-normal forecast through October, shoreline vulnerability to erosion and flooding, and August 5 Lake Michigan–Huron levels and projections. It is a reprinted forecast and advisory, not a calibrated hydrologic dataset, engineering assessment, or later storm-outcome record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1986-11_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twenty-page November issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the high-water article.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1986-11_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “High Great Lakes water levels prompt a fall-storm erosion warning, 1986”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-high-water-fall-storm-warning-1986/, accessed [date], citing Philip Kollor, “High Water Could Mean Damage in Fall Storms,” Beaver Beacon, November 1986, reprinted from the Door County Advocate. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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