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Unlike many of Michigan's rivers, the Thunder Bay River drops considerably from its headwaters in southwestern Montmorency County to Lake Huron. A hill near the headwaters northeast of Lewiston is 1,270 feet (390 m) above sea level and 689 feet (210 m) above lake level. A former whitewater stretch northwest of Alpena, the "Long Rapids", carried ...
Pigeon River (Huron County), empties into Saginaw Bay of Lake Huron; Pigeon River (Ottawa County), empties into Lake Michigan; Pigeon River (St. Joseph County), empties into the St. Joseph River; Pike River; Pilgrim River; Pinconning River; Pine Creek (Gratiot County) Pine River (Alcona/Iosco counties) Pine River (Arenac County) Pine River ...
Whirinaki River (Bay of Plenty) This page was last edited on 14 July 2024, at 21:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Michigan has about 242 streams (rivers and creeks) with a combined length of 36,350 miles (58,500 km) and about 11,000 lakes and ponds. [1] Michigan borders four of the five Great Lakes and is a signatory to the Great Lakes Compact. [2] The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is responsible for the management of Michigan's water ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Michigan. Major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
Because of the link through the Straits, Lakes Michigan and Huron have the same mean water level (in June 2015 it was 580 feet (177 m)). [ 13 ] The largest inflow to the system is the St. Mary's River from Lake Superior , and the main outflow is the St. Clair River toward Lake Erie ; both lie in the Lake Huron basin.
Fletcher Pond (also called Fletcher Floodwaters) is a man-made body of water located in Northeastern Michigan. The pond covers over 9,000 acres (36 km 2 ) of land that was previously cedar forest. A dam was built in 1931 that blocked the flow of the Thunder Bay River to provide reserve water for the Alpena Power Company hydroelectric power ...
Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron The Kawkawlin River is a 17.5-mile-long (28.2 km) [ 1 ] stream in the U.S. state of Michigan that flows into Saginaw Bay of Lake Huron at 43°39′30″N 83°53′00″W / 43.65833°N 83.88333°W / 43.65833; -83.88333 , [ 2 ] approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the mouth of the Saginaw