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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 ...
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]
It served as the drainage zone for an area of lower Michigan that covers approximately ten counties. The region was a treasure-house of the wetland timber industry in the late 19th century. After the old-growth trees had almost all been removed, starting in 1903 farmers tried to ditch and tile-drain the land for arable crops.
The Saginaw River is a 22.4-mile-long (36.0 km) [3] river in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is formed by the confluence of the Tittabawassee and Shiawassee rivers southwest of Saginaw . It flows northward into the Saginaw Bay of Lake Huron , passing through the cities of Saginaw and Bay City , both of which developed around it in the 19th century.
A catchwater drain is a land drain, a ditch cut across the fall of the land, typically just above the level of low-lying, level ground such as The Fens of eastern England, where some land, tens of kilometres from the sea is at about sea level. Its purpose is to gather water draining from the higher, sloping ground before it reaches the flat ...
The Shiawassee watershed is located south and west of Saginaw Bay in Central Michigan.Its basin is shaped like an hourglass, approximately 65 miles (105 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) wide at each end, and narrows to 5 miles (8.0 km) wide near Corunna. [3]
The Coldwater River is a 19.4-mile-long (31.2 km) [2] stream in the U.S. state of Michigan. Located in western Michigan , the river is a part of the Grand River drainage basin . The Coldwater River flows through Barry and Kent counties, and the drainage basin also includes a large portion of southwest Ionia County and a tiny portion of Sunfield ...