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The New York State Senate will hold hearings in the coming months to discuss record flooding that affected communities along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

The first hearing is scheduled for 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10 at Mexico High School, 3338 Main St., in Mexico, Oswego County. A second hearing will be held at a Wayne County site in November. The details of that meeting will be announced in the near future.

State Sens. Tom O'Mara and Patty Ritchie will lead the hearing. O'Mara, R-Big Flats, is chairman of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee. Ritchie, R-Oswegatchie, chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee.

The hearing will focus on how flooding impacted communities along the lake and river. Lake levels reached new highs after record rainfall in the spring.

But some elected officials and residents have blamed Plan 2014 for the flooding. Plan 2014 is a water management plan adopted by the International Joint Commission, a panel of U.S. and Canadian officials that oversee shared waterways.

The state senators have invited representatives from the International Joint Commission, the state Department of Environmental Conservation, New York Sea Grant and other agencies to testify at the hearing.