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U-M divers retrieve 8,900-year-old piece of wood from Lake Huron
Annarbor.com (12/12)
University of Michigan researchers announced they have found a 5 1/2 foot long, pole-shaped piece of wood that is 8,900 years old in Lake Huron.
Superior researchers studying invasives, ballast water
Ashland Current (2/9)
Determining how clean a ship's ballast water must be to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species is the goal of the latest research partnership between the Northeast-Midwest Institute and the Lake Superior Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.
RIVERKEEPERS: Tending the waterways
Niagara Gazette (2/6)
The goal of the Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper is two-fold: protecting the water quantity and the quality, as well as connecting people to the waterfront.
Internationally renowned ‘Ocean Doctor’ to speak in Grand Rapids
MLive.com (2/3)
Known as the “Ocean Doctor,” David Guggenheim will speak in Grand Rapids, Mich., about the many similarities between the threats to the oceans and to our Great Lakes.
SUNY Fredonia to lead Great Lakes pollution study
Wall Street Journal (2/3)
Plastic pollution in the Great Lakes will be the focus of a study this summer. Led by the State University of New York at Fredonia, researchers will try to quantify the amount of plastic polluting the fresh water Great Lakes.
SSC students taking part in marine science bowl
Arenac County Independent (1/31)
Teams of Michigan high school students will be heading to Ann Arbor this weekend to take part in the annual Great Lakes Bowl, a quiz event that focuses on questions about marine and freshwater systems and biology.
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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