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So the vast majority of the water that's been entering Lake Ontario is coming directly from Lake Erie via the Niagara River So it's going over Niagara Falls and then going to Lake Ontario and Lake Erie's volume has actually been running Consistently above its long-term average so Lake Erie is quite high and there's been a ton of spring precipitation Right, so there's been a lot of intense and repetitive spring rain and that and that hasn't just been across the lakes I've been across the entire Great Lakes basin. So local tribute areas. They have lots of accelerator runoff Right, so ultimately Lake Ontario is on the receiving end of all the other lakes in one way or another and then the Ottawa River That's sort of the most crucial variable for water management because this is where all the outflow is So the the Moses Saunders power dam in Cornwall is where the the outflows are controlled But you might say well when the lake goes up can't the operators just open the gates? Well, you can't do that because doing that would cause catastrophic flooding downstream