I remember well the huge numbers of migrant and wintering water-loving
birds that enlivened the impoundment at Lorain for so many years, and
the many changes it's been through since. Humans have hogged the Lake
Erie waterfront in Ohio for a long time, and even the less developed
areas that remain, mostly in the western basin, have been maintained in
some very unnatural ways; elsewhere, the dredge-spoil impoundments have
at times been natural enough to benefit these birds, none perhaps more
importantly than that at Lorain.
        An official for the Port Authority has sent me a copy of the Master
Plan, and while I'd like to see a natural area there, the plan has at
least declined to envision uses like wind park, casino, ferry terminal,
medical college, etc., for the site, and includes some natural areas.
        Interested folks can see this document by writing to me, and I can send
as an attachment; I don't have a Web address for it, sorry. Or you could
write the Port Authority http://www.lorainportauthority.com/ for a file
of the "Lorain Dike Disposal Site Master Plan."
Bill Whan
Columbus

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