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This list of Michigan rivers includes all streams designated rivers although some may be smaller than those streams designated creeks, runs, brooks, swales, cuts, bayous, outlets, inlets, drains and ditches. These terms are all in use in Michigan.
The two stage drainage ditch is classified as a 'surface' sustainable drainage system, contrary to a sub-surface system. The two stage drainage ditch is a modification of the land whereby grass benches which serve as floodplains are formed within the land of the watershed of the water system, shown in the diagram to the right. [1]
The river is formed by a confluence of agricultural drainage ditches in Olive Township [5] and flows generally west-southwestward into Port Sheldon Township. After flowing through Pigeon Lake, [ 7 ] which is the only lake in the river's watershed, [ 5 ] it flows into Lake Michigan in Port Sheldon Township, approximately 9.5 miles (15.3 km ...
Portage River is a 38.6-mile-long (62.1 km) [3] river that flows southward through Kalamazoo County and St. Joseph County, Michigan.Its headwaters are 8 miles (13 km) east of the city of Kalamazoo at Portage Lake, and the river flows southwest to its mouth within the city limits of Three Rivers, where it drains into the St. Joseph River.
The power plant's peak use of 3,000 cu ft/s (85 m 3 /s) of water exceeds the river's average flow of 741 cu ft/s (21.0 m 3 /s), so on some occasions, water is drawn upstream from Lake Erie into the plant. The high level of industrial water use is thought to kill large numbers of fish in the intake screens and to make fish migration from the ...
The Rogue River is a river in the U.S. state of Michigan, running through Kent and Newaygo counties and through the Rogue River State Game Area. It is 48 miles (77 km) long [2] and has a drainage basin of 234 square miles (610 km 2). [3] Its headwaters are a series of ditches that drain the old Rice Lake bed near Grant for agricultural purposes ...
The Pigeon River, also known as the East Branch Pigeon River, is a 37.9-mile-long (61.0 km) [2] stream in Huron County in the Thumb of the U.S. state of Michigan.. The stream rises from the confluence of Appin and Livingston drains [1] in southern Sheridan Township.
Boyne River is a stream in Northern Michigan, named for the River Boyne in Leinster, Ireland. Together with the north and south branches, the river system has approximately 22 miles (35 km) of mainstream and the water basin drains 40,320 acres (163.2 km 2). [2] Boyne River is Lake Charlevoix's second-largest tributary, after the Jordan River.