{"id":57600,"date":"2025-12-10T19:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57600\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:14:09","slug":"lake-erie-niagara-river-ice-boom-to-be-installed-dec-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57600\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Erie-Niagara River ice boom to be installed Dec. 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Installation of the\u00a0ice\u00a0boom\u00a0for the 2025-26\u00a0ice\u00a0season is scheduled to begin\u00a0as early as Dec. 14, the\u00a0International Joint Commission has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The boom will be installed by the New York Power Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0ice\u00a0boom\u00a0promotes the formation and strengthening of a naturally occurring\u00a0ice\u00a0arch that reduces the amount of\u00a0ice\u00a0entering the Niagara River.<\/p>\n<p>According to IJC officials, the\u00a0ice\u00a0boom can be safely installed when Lake Erie reaches 4 degrees Celsius (39 degrees Fahrenheit) in Buffalo. As of Dec. 10, Lake Erie water temperature is approximately 4.4 degrees Celsius (40 degrees Fahrenheit).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Installation of the\u00a0ice\u00a0boom\u00a0for the 2025-26\u00a0ice\u00a0season is scheduled to begin\u00a0as early as Dec. 14, the\u00a0International Joint Commission has announced.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1612,21392,1611,1610,136,138,137,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-57600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-app-in-the-community","9":"tag-brian-campbell","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-community-news","12":"tag-erie","13":"tag-erie-headlines","14":"tag-erie-news","15":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}