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Great Lakes freighters navigating on the lower St. Clair River. View is from the U.S. side, looking across to Canada. The St. Clair River is a 40.5-mile-long (65.2 km) [1] river in central North America which flows from Lake Huron into Lake St. Clair, forming part of the international boundary between Canada and the United States and between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state ...
The main inlet is the St. Marys River from Lake Superior, and the main outlet is through the St. Clair River toward Lake Erie. Lake Huron has a fairly large drainage basin covering parts of Michigan and Ontario. Water flows through Lake Huron faster than the other Great Lakes with a retention time of only 22 years.
In the early part of this closing two-outlet stage a small discharge went by way of Illinois River at Chicago. The basin there is only 8 feet (2.4 m) and the Nipissing beach is 15 feet (4.6 m) above the modern lake. The small discharge would have ended when the outlet at Port Huron had cut down 3 feet (0.91 m) or 4 feet (1.2 m). [3]
It is free for residents of the city of Port Huron, Fort Gratiot and Port Huron Township. Fort Gratiot Light Station is located at 2802 Omar St. Admission into the light station is free.
The Blue Water Bridge during the winter. The Blue Water Bridge is a twin-span international bridge across the St. Clair River that links Port Huron, Michigan, United States, and Point Edward, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Water Bridge connects Highway 402 in Ontario with both Interstate 69 (I-69) and Interstate 94 (I-94) in Michigan.
December 10, 2023 at 5:14 AM. Street and building lights illuminate downtown Port Huron's Main Street at the corner with Quay Street on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. PORT HURON — In the wake of 26 ...
Great Lakes Waterway. The Great Lakes Waterway (GLW) is a system of natural channels and artificial locks and canals which enable navigation between the North American Great Lakes. [1] Though all of the lakes are naturally connected as a chain, water travel between the lakes was impeded for centuries by obstacles such as Niagara Falls and the ...
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by area and the third largest in volume, behind Lake Baikal in Siberia and Lake Tanganyika in East Africa. The Caspian Sea, while larger than Lake Superior in both surface area and volume, is brackish. Lake Superior deepest point [4] on the bathymetric map.