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Lake Champlain Levels Near Record Low

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BURLINGTON, Vt. -

(AP) - The unusually dry spring is leaving Lake Champlain's level near a record low, just a year after it approached the highest level on record.

      The National Weather Service in South Burlington says the lake between Vermont and New York had fallen to 96.04 feet above sea level as of Saturday. That's nearly the same as the mid-April low-water mark of 96.27 feet set in 1995.

      The U.S. Geological Survey says the lowest Lake Champlain level on record was 92.08 feet above sea level, recorded Dec. 4, 1908.

      The Burlington Free Press, says Lake Champlain usually is close to the flood stage of about 100 feet this time of year, because of spring rains and snow melt. But this year, there was little snow and spring rainfall has been sparse.

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