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The Baptism River is an 8.8-mile-long (14.2 km) [4] river of the U.S. state of Minnesota.The river source is the confluence of the East Branch Baptism River and the West Branch Baptism River just south of the community of Finland.
Canal Park [1] is a tourist and recreation-oriented district of Duluth, [2] Minnesota, United States. Situated across the Interstate 35 freeway from Downtown Duluth, it is connected by the Aerial Lift Bridge across the Duluth Ship Canal to the Park Point sandbar and neighborhood. Canal Park Drive and Lake Avenue South serve as the main routes ...
On the north side, there is a building housing the local Corps of Engineers administration, as well as the Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center. There are no locks; most ships transit the canal under their own power, though tug service is available in case of adverse weather. [3] Around a thousand vessels a year ship from the Duluth–Superior ...
Lake County's Sullivan Lake, next to a popular campground about 25 miles north of Two Harbors, nearly emptied after water broke through its small 124-year-old dam, constructed of wood, stone and dirt.
The waterway allows passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the inland port of Duluth on Lake Superior, a distance of 2,340 miles (3,770 km) and to Chicago, on Lake Michigan, at 2,250 miles (3,620 km). [3] The elevation change from Lake Superior to sea level is 601 feet (183 m).
Two years after the $20 million removal of the Middle Fork Nooksack dam, salmon have safe passage through the river, but none have been seen — so now local tribes and wildlife officials are ...
Hoot Lake Dam; Diversion Dam Otter Tail: Otter Tail Power: 1913 Gravity: 10 3.0 Hoot Lake 99 122 1.0 Otter Tail: Wildlife; hydroelectric; water supply International Falls Dam ‡; Rainy Lake Dam [note 1] Koochiching; Fort Frances: Boise Cascade; H2O Power 1909; 2017 [7] Gravity Arch: 38 12 Rainy Lake: 4,000,000 4,900,000 14.4 Rainy
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history has freed the Klamath River, inspiring hope among Indigenous activists who pushed for rewilding to help save salmon.