Radio Messages
Seaway Radio Message #1 - 2009 Opening
This is the first Radio Message for the opening of the 2009 navigation season.
The Montreal-Lake Ontario section will open to navigation on March 31st at 0800 hours.
The Welland Canal will open to navigation March 31st at 0800 hours.
The maximum permissible draft for both the Montreal-Lake Ontario Section and the Welland Canal is 80.8 dm (26’6”).
MONTREAL-LAKE ONTARIO SECTION
Ice conditions in the Montreal-Lake Ontario Section of the Seaway are available through the local Traffic Control Centres.
Navigation may be restricted until the commissioning of lighted aids has been completed. Mariners are warned to exercise extreme caution in the use of winter markers as the position of the markers may have been affected by ice. Further information concerning this is available from the appropriate traffic control centre.
The removal of the Galop and Prescott-Ogdensburg ice booms A and G is complete.
WELLAND CANAL
The Welland Canal is open water with broken ice present in Port Colborne Harbour. Mariners are cautioned that, at present, thick to thin ice conditions exist in the Eastern end of Lake Erie. Ice breaker assistance is available.
The next radio message will be issued Tuesday, March 31.
March 30, 2009