There's been a lot of discussion of the impact all this flooding is having on homes and businesses, but what about the environment?

"I don’t see where this is the beneficial to the wildlife in any way, shape or form," Greece Town Supervisor Bill Reilich said. "It’s certainly not beneficial to the homeowners along the lake."

Reilich says if destruction of homes and property isn’t bad enough, he’s also seen a ripple effect of the flooding that's impacting plants.

"What we have here is an island of phragmites," Reilich said. "It’s about 75 to 80 feet around. This broke off from further into the pond and has now floated into this area."

The animals…

"You drive down and you’ll see rabbits running across and different areas like that because where they’re normally nested is flooded," Relich continued.

And even the insects.

"I’ve had residents sleeping in their beds with mosquito nesting around their bed because their house is infested with mosquitos," he added.

Not to mention the trash and other pollutants getting washed into Lake Ontario.

"A lot of the chemicals, fertilizers and contaminants that are on the shore are entering the water," Relich said.

College of Brockport Professor of Wetland Science Doug Wilcox says it’s a dance mother nature has performed for thousands of years.

"It’s mother nature doing what mother nature does, and has been doing for a long time," Wilcox said. "So it’s not unexpected, and it will happen again."

He says while what’s happening to homeowners is unfortunate, the highs and lows of lake levels are critical to the ecosystem.

"The high lake levels flood out and kill the invading upland trees and shrubs, and create an open habitat for birds and other animals," he added.

Wilcox says the highs have nothing to do with regulation, but high levels of precipitation all across the country that may have more to do with climate change.

"There is massive flooding in the Midwest and not on the lakes," Wilcox said. "The Mississippi River is flooding out, St. Louis for instance."

The same rain that is washing pollution into the waters anyway, flood or no flood.

"If you have a storm during a high lake level or a low level, you get erosion, you get large flows from land into the lake," Wilcox said. "It’s going to happen high lake levels or low lake levels."

He says the ecosystem adjusts, but humans will need to too.

"I don’t feel good for all the problems these land owners along the shoreline are facing, but they’ve got to know that it’s going to happen, it has happened, and it will happen again."