· but holmes says the high water levels in lake michigan have created a crisis for fishtown , damaging key structures and causing the predicted costs of rehabilitation to skyrocket. · while lake levels have often fluctuated over the decades – many will remember record highs experienced in 1986 – meteorologists have warned a warming climate could accelerate both precipitation and evaporation trends, creating inconsistent extremes in great lakes levels. · in 2019, record-high water levels threatened fishtown , rising over docks and flooding several shanties, including the village cheese shanty. · last week, water levels in the tiny offshoot of leland on the leelanau peninsula, grew 1 to 2 feet as a seiche caused water to spill over the top of the docks and into businesses, according to. · historic fishtown is in peril due to the rising waters of lake michigan. · scientists believe climate change will cause great lakes water levels to fluctuate more frequently and dramatically between extreme highs and lows, a concern that leaves places like fishtown vulnerable to repeated flooding. Record breaking high water levels this year have flooded many of the historic. · here in leelanau, people are scrambling to shore up shanties at fishtown , farmers are getting stuck in their fields, growers are faced with ungrowable climes, tourists can’t walk the beaches, and sump pumps are going nonstop in homes.

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