By: Evan Anstey
Updated: Apr 09, 2018 02:20 PM EDT

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - If the weather is right for it, personnel from the New York Power Authority will start opening the 22 spans of the Lake Erie-Niagara River Ice Boom on Tuesday.

Last year, crews began removing the boom on March 6. The latest date it has ever been removed is May 3. That was in 1971.

The ice boom has been placed in the water every year since 1964. It helps reduce the amount of ice to enter the Niagara River.