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Strategic plan targets invasive species
The Superior Daily Telegram (11/17)
Douglas County’s Land Conservation Committee is forwarding a plan to the county board that takes aim at invasive species.
Mich. Clean Marina Program: Public-private partners work together to improve water quality
Grand Rapids Environmental News Examiner (11/9)
Partners from the public and private sector in Michigan are working together in a voluntary program to improve the quality of the Great Lakes.
Researchers seek funding for wind test site in Lake Michigan
Grand Rapids Environmental News Examiner (11/7)
In a recent article in The Muskegon Chronicle, it was reported that researchers at Grand Valley State University’s Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center (MAREC) cited a lack of year-around data (on wind platform testing) needed by prospective development companies.
COMMENTARY: Senate needs to pass clean energy act to help Michigan
The Grand Rapids Press (10/26)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was absolutely correct with his recent proclamation about the current condition of the Great Lakes State: "The State of Michigan," Reid declared from the Senate Floor, with a copy Time Magazine in his hand, "is in trouble."
First Nation women 'walk the environmental talk'
WeNews (10/23)
Tomorrow's global day of climate activism aims for media and political attention. First Nation women have another way. Since 2003, they've walked the shoreline of a Great Lake or major river, meditating on the needs of an unborn generation.
City making big push for water school
The Business Journal (10/23)
The push is on to convince the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that the best location for its new School of Freshwater Sciences is near the university’s existing Great Lakes Water Institute on East Greenfield Avenue.
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What is the highest elevation of the water of Lake St. Clair ever recorded?
from Cameron in Plymouth, MI, Age 12
The levels of each of the Great Lakes depends on the balance between the quantity of water entering the lake and the quantity of the water leaving the lake. So if these quantities remain precisely the same, then the general water level for the entire lake stays constant. If more water enters the lake than leaves it, the volume of water in the lake increases. This causes the lake level to rise. If less water enters lake than leaves it, then the level of water in the lake decreases.
The Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory reports a maximum water level of 576.69 feet (or 175.77 meters) for Lake St. Clair. The average range from month to month spans from 0.4 feet (or 0.12 meters) all the way to 3.3 feet (or 1.01 meters) in a single month.
Related references:
TEACH: Water levels on the Great Lakes
GLIN: Great Lakes Water Levels
GLIN: Lake St. Clair
The Lake St. Clair Network
Thank you for your question!
Answered on August 3, 2001