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The Great Lakes are used to ship iron ore, coal, limestone, and cement to and/or from ports in Michigan. [4] Energy generation is a large user of water. From damming rivers to generate electricity, to power plant cooling, to the Ludington Pumped Storage Power Plant. [5] Irrigation and industrial uses also account for water usage. [5]
Now part of Lake Oakland, the body of water is referred to as Leggett Bay. Grayson Canal was added to expand lake access to homeowners on Rutherford Court (formerly the Rutherford Estate) and Athens Avenue (formerly Meigs Fields property). [4] Map of Leggett property, circa 1930, demonstrating that Leggett Lake / Bay was not connected to Lake ...
Tahquamenon Falls in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.. The heavily forested Upper Peninsula is relatively mountainous in the west. The Porcupine Mountains, which are part of one of the oldest mountain chains in the world, [3] rise to an altitude of almost 2,000 feet (610 m) above sea level and form the watershed between the streams flowing into Lake Superior and Lake Michigan.
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 ).
According to the United States Census Bureau, Watervliet Township has a total area of 14.49 square miles (37.53 km 2), of which 13.47 square miles (34.89 km 2) is land and 1.02 square miles (2.64 km 2) (7.04%) is water. [4] The largest water body in the township is Paw Paw Lake, shared with Coloma Township.
Lake Charlevoix (/ ˈ ʃ ɑːr l ə v ɔɪ / SHAR-lə-voy) is a lake in Charlevoix County in the U.S. state of Michigan.It is the third largest inland lake in the state with a surface area of over 17,200 acres (70 km 2) and 56 miles (90 km) of shoreline.
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Detailed map of lakes of the Inland Waterway. The Inland Waterway or Inland Water Route is a 38-mile-long (61 km) series of rivers and lakes in the U.S. state of Michigan.With only a short portage, it forms a navigable route for small craft connecting Lake Huron and Crooked Lake, across the Northern Michigan region.