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  Lake St. Clair Facts and Figures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The smallest lake in the Great Lakes system, Lake St. Clair is not considered to be one of the "Great" lakes, however, it is part of the Lake Erie basin.
Lake St. Clair is shallow, averaging 10 feet (3 meters) deep.
Clair's maximum depth is only 21 feet (6.4 meters), a mere fraction of Lake Superior's maximum depth of 1,332 feet (406 meters).
www.great-lakes.net /lakes/ref/stclfact.html   (228 words)

  
  Lake Saint Clair (North America) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lake St. Clair (French: Lac Sainte-Claire) is a lake between Ontario, Canada and Michigan in the United States, located about 10 km (6 mi) northeast of Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.
Clair River and Detroit River, provides the connection between Lake Huron to the north and Lake Erie to the south.
The lake is fed from Lake Huron at its north by the St. Clair River, which has an extensive delta, the largest within the Great Lakes system.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_St_Clair,_North_America   (429 words)

  
 St Clair, Lake
In 1679 LA SALLE, becalmed in the lake on the feast day of Ste-Claire, christened the lake (and river) in her honour.
Lake St Clair is connected to Lake HURON by the ST CLAIR RIVER and is drained into Lake ERIE by the DETROIT RIVER.
As part of the ST LAWRENCE SEAWAY, Lake St Clair and the river serve as a major transport route for commercial shipping vessels.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0007063   (235 words)

  
 General Facts About Lake St. Clair
Lake St. Clair is sometimes referred to as the "sixth Great Lake".
The lake is approximately 26 miles long and 24 miles wide, with a surface area of 430 square miles and 130 miles of shoreline.
Lake St. Clair has always been a treasured natural resource for the residents of southeast Michigan and southwest Ontario.
www.angelfire.com /mi4/scswateradvisory/genfacts.html   (977 words)

  
 Michigan DNR - Lake St. Clair Fisheries Research Station: 2000 St. Clair Lake Sturgeon Study Performance Report
Since lake sturgeon are known to be capable of exceeding 50 years in age (Scott and Crossman 1973), year-classes prior to 1965 appeared under-represented in the catch.
Growth of lake sturgeon in the St. Clair ecosystem was good, with some fish attaining a total length of 1 m as early as age 8.
In contrast, lake sturgeon in Michigan's inland waters grow slower, particularly from age 1 to age 15, and attain a mean length of 1270 mm at age 22 (Baker 1980).
www.fws.gov /midwest/sturgeon/mtclemens_02update.htm   (1705 words)

  
 Lakehouse.com - Michigan Lake Property - Lake St. Clair
Lake St Clair is an expansive shallow basin, with low, marshy shores and a flatly sloping bottom.
St Clair River flows North and enters from the north part of the lake through several channels of a wide delta area.
The Chief importance of the lake is the dredged deep-draft channel that leads across it to connect Detroit River and St. Clair River.
www.lakehouse.com /michigan/saintclair.htm   (176 words)

  
 Bass Fishing Resource Guide® - The Skinny On Lake St. Clair
Surrounded by the Great Lakes - Lake Huron to the north and Lake Erie to the south, Lake St. Clair is dwarfed in size and legend.
However, this lake of 430 square miles of surface area, is responsible for nearly 30% of the sportfishing catch of the Great Lakes and 50% of all the sportfishing that takes place in the Great Lakes.
Lake St. Clair boasts millions of smallmouth and largemouth bass that grow to an average of 2 lbs..
www.bassresource.com /fishing/st_clair.html   (797 words)

  
 Macomb County Health Department - 2001 Lake St. Clair Assessment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The water flowing through Lake St. Clair is a precious natural resource that provides drinking water for millions, numerous recreational opportunities and is essential to the businesses and homeowners adjacent to the shoreline.
The near shore testing was conducted at 23 major outfalls to the lake, including the mouths of the Clinton River and Spillway, urban storm drains, smaller rivers and creeks and retention basin discharge points.
The database will be useful as a tool to address specific questions related to water quality in Lake St. Clair including the potential identification of streams and drains contributing specific types of pollution to the lake, pollutant dynamics, and the relationships of pollutant levels to environmental factors.
macombcountymi.gov /PUBLICHEALTH/2001_LSCA_exec_summary.asp   (2268 words)

  
 Lake St. Clair chapter 8
St Clair River flows N and enters from the N part of the lake through several channels of a wide delta area.
The Chief importance of the lake is the dredged deep-draft channel that leads across it to connect Detroit River and St. Clair River.
Lake St. Clair Light (42 27.9'N., 82 45.3'W.) 52 feet above water, is shown from a white square tower on a cylindrical base on the NW side of the channel at the slight turn near its midpoint.
www.boatnerd.com /facts-figures/lkstcp.htm   (1086 words)

  
 Lake St. Clair cleanup proposal in works
The running joke about Lake St. Clair is that it's not a Great Lake but it is a good lake.
That secondary status has caused the lake to be overlooked when it came to cleanup efforts, some environmentalists say.
Martz, who also heads the St. Clair Channel Keepers, said it is too early to predict how successful the plan will be but is pleased to see so many agencies involved.
www.freep.com /news/locmac/nlake26_20020226.htm   (540 words)

  
 Lake St Clair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lake St. Clair is one of the most spectacular and accessible bodies of water in the Hunter.
The lake takes its name from the historic St Clair homestead now inundated by the waters.
The valley behind the dam, known as St Clair, was settled and cleared more than a century ago for grazing and cultivation.
www.singleton.infohunt.nsw.gov.au /library/stclair.html   (586 words)

  
 Lake St. Clair is short on fish - 10/03/04
Many anglers are not fishing in Lake St. Clair this year because the gasoline prices are too high — as much as $2.50 a gallon along the lake —and others have lost their jobs and can’t afford to fish, he said.
Lake Erie supplies most of the adult walleye for Lake St. Clair, the St. Clair River and the Detroit River.
Muskies are the top predator in the lake and many 40-pounders prowl the waters because anglers are releasing their muskie catches back into the lake.
www.detnews.com /2004/macomb/0410/04/b05-291516.htm   (568 words)

  
 Lake St.Clair - album 1
Lake St.Clair lays in the southern part of the Cradle Mountain - Lake St.Clair National Park, which is declared the World Heritage Area.
The glacier-formed lake is located 737 m above the sea level and, being 167 m deep, is the deepest lake in Australia.
If you will stay in a cabin near the lake please be careful not to trip over a wallaby (in the morning) or a brushtail possum (in the evening) when opening the door.
www.eneabba.net /Tasmania/Tas12.htm   (178 words)

  
 Macomb Daily : Lake St. Clair group to reform 05/23/06
The lake's pollution problems peaked in the summer of 1994, with massive sewage discharges causing most of the beaches to close for nearly the entire summer.
Critics joked that the lake was a "toilet," and Macomb County's reputation suffered as the newspaper headlines mounted.
White said the lake must remain on the agenda of the county board as it undergoes changes in membership and leadership in 2007.
www.macombdaily.com /stories/052306/loc_lake001.shtml   (934 words)

  
 SMIG -- Visualization of Drifting Buoys in St. Clair River (article: March 2001)
Clair River is a connecting channel of the Great Lakes between Lake Huron and Lake St. Clair.
Clair River is a connecting channel between Lake Huron and Lake St. Clair that forms part of the international boundary between the United States and Canada (fig.
For St. Clair River deployments, the electronics of these buoys were enhanced to decrease the sampling interval from 30 minutes to about 90 seconds and to increase the precision of positional information from about 700 ft to about 70 ft. Local interferences, however, often reduced the average sampling intervals to more than 180 seconds.
smig.usgs.gov /SMIG/features_0301/drifters.html   (2205 words)

  
 Polluting Lake St. Clair
The river feeds Lake St. Clair, whose high levels of fecal coliform bacteria have resulted in several closings of the Metropolitan Beach in recent years.
Indeed, in the summer of 1998, when discharges from Twelve Towns peaked, the lake’s e-coli concentrations remained steady, suggesting that other factors may be behind the pollution.
Recent reports that Clinton Township has been dumping raw sewage into Lake St. Clair when Oakland County communities are being forced to spend millions of dollars for the lake’s cleanup illustrate the perverse nature of the Clean Water Act.
www.detnews.com /EDITPAGE/0002/14/edit1/edit1.htm   (452 words)

  
 cradle mountain-lake st.clair national park, cradle mountain lodge, linda lee rathbun
The high mountain peaks and deep glacial lakes of the Cradle Mountain-Lake St. Clair area were formed during the last Ice Age, 20,000 years ago.
The Lake St. Clair end of the park is close to Derwent Bridge on the Lyell Highway.
Lake St. Clair shimmers amongst the green forests that surround it.
www.naturalwanders.com /cradlemountainlakestclairnationalpark.htm   (1500 words)

  
 Cradle Mountain History - Tourism Tasmania Australia
Nothofagus Gunnii which is commonly called Fagus, is the only native deciduous tree in Australia and its leaves change colour in autumn, usually at the end of April to gold, orange and to deep red before falling.
Crater Lake is 60 metres deep and was named in 1905 for its resemblance to a volcanic crater.
In 1909 Weindorfer and Charlie Sutton camped at Dove Lake and on the 4th of January 1910 Gustav, Kate and Ronnie Smith climbed Cradle Mountain.
www.cradlehighlander.com.au /cradle-mountain-history.html   (549 words)

  
 Lake St Clair - Derwent Bridge. Tasmania. Sweetwater Fishing Australia
Lake St Clair is within the National Park area and a Parks entry permit is needed to access the waters here.
The main lake is a clear, deep water with some of the most magnificent scenery in Tasmania however it is not recognized as a great trout water but has good beetle, polarizing and wind lane fishing during the summer months.
It is part lake and part river where water from the main lake flows out over a shallow basin to form the headwater of the Derwent River.
www.sweetwaterfishing.com.au /StClairTAS.htm   (283 words)

  
 St Clair, Lake
In 1679 LA SALLE, becalmed in the lake on the feast day of Ste-Claire, christened the lake (and river) in her honour.
Lake St Clair is connected to Lake HURON by the ST CLAIR RIVER and is drained into Lake ERIE by the DETROIT RIVER.
As part of the ST LAWRENCE SEAWAY, Lake St Clair and the river serve as a major transport route for commercial shipping vessels.
tceplus.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007063   (245 words)

  
 Lake St Clair (Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park) 
Lake St Clair is at the southern end of the world famous Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park and is part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
Carved out by ice during several glaciations over the last two million years, this is the deepest lake in Australia and the headwaters of the Derwent River, upon which the capital city of Tasmania is located.
Lake St Clair is also the end point of the famous Overland Track, a long-distance walk which runs from Cradle Mountain in the north to Cynthia Bay on the southern shore of Lake St Clair.
www.parks.tas.gov.au /natparks/stclair/index.html   (200 words)

  
 Lake St Claire
Because of the cool water the bass in St. Clair spawn later than most lakes and the season is does not open till the 2nd Saturday in June.
Lake St. Clair is located in the heart of the Great Lakes between Lake Huron and Lake Erie.
The lake is fed by an elaborate river system in the North and discharges into the Detroit River.
mywebpages.comcast.net /lesselink/LAKE_ST_CLAIR.htm   (541 words)

  
 Great Lakes Marine Text Forecasts by Zone
Great Lakes nearshore marine forecasts are issued throughout the boating season, typically beginning around April 1 and ending around December 31, dependent on ice conditions on the entrances to each individual lake.
Lake Superior, east of a line from Manitou Is., MI northward beyond 5 nm, and south of the US/Canadian border, excluding Whitefish Bay.
Lake Michigan, Winthrop Harbor, IL eastward to the mid-point of the lake
www.nws.noaa.gov /om/marine/gtlakes.htm   (1250 words)

  
 Alien Species in Lake St. Clair
One example was the impact of mercury, which was discovered in Lake St. Clair fish in the late 1960s and early '70s, Sands said.
Kafkas said hunters might not easily detect the decline of blue bills in Lake St. Clair because the lake is a favorite feeding and resting ground for waterfowl on their migratory routes.
On the shorelines of Lake Michigan —; and in fishing harbors all along the five Great Lakes — thousands of fisherman are worried they may soon be angling for fish that are amazingly simple to catch.
www.geocities.com /TheTropics/Breakers/1421/alien.htm   (5159 words)

  
 Lake St   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A lake between Michigan and the Canadian province of Ontario which connects with Lake Huron by the St. Clair River and with Lake Erie by the Detroit River.
Lake St. Clair, a cargo ship, was launched under USSB contract 12 December 1917 by Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.; operated as an Army cargo transport until acquired by the Navy and commissioned 31 October 1919 at Cardiff, Wales, Lt. Comdr.
Returning to the United States in late August, Lake St. Clair decommissioned 11 September 1919 at Philadelphia and was returned to USSB the same day.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/l3/lake_st_clair.htm   (166 words)

  
 Lake St. Clair Direct Drainage
The local governments in the Lake St. Clair Drainage Area have been working with community leaders, residents, citizens groups, businesses and environmental organizations located within the subwatershed, to get input on issues that will shape future community policies and regulations.
Communities, agencies and organizations in the Lake St. Clair Direct Drainage Area are working together on a subwatershed-based approach for furthering public awareness of the impacts and causes of non-point source pollution and to develop a strategy to empower residents and businesses to address these causes in their daily routines.
Communities in the Lake St. Clair Direct Drainage have held a stakeholder workshop and community forum to provide information on their subwatershed planning efforts and to ask for your ideas and suggestions.
www.clintonriver.org /programs/phase2/Subwatersheds/LSC.html   (345 words)

  
 Lake St. Clair Fishing Report
The walleyes fishing in the St. Clair river is on par with the terrific walleye fishing on Lake Erie.
Drifting crawler rigs from Lake Huron near Port Huron to the town of St. Clair is awesome fishing 35 to 40 feet of water.
Lake St. Clair walleye fishing on the other hand seem a little tougher for limits.
www.greatmich.com /northbay/lake_st_clair_fishing_report.htm   (2951 words)

  
 Lake St. Clair, MI
Lighthouse History: Lake St. Clair is the shallowest of the lakes traversed by shipping traffic with an average depth of 12 feet.
A hidden channel marked by buoys, runs from the St. Clair River (West end of Seaway Island) down to the Detroit River.
In the center of Lake St. Clair this channel has a slight bend marked by a lighthouse with a flashing green lantern.
www.midwestconnection.com /Lighthouses/lk_st_clairLT/LStClairlLT.htm   (176 words)

  
 Great Lakes Area of Concerns (AoCs): St. Clair | Great Lakes | US EPA
Clair River RAP priorities include contaminated sediment remediation on the Canadian side of the river, elimination of CSOs and SSOs on both sides of the river, elimination of spills to the river from "Chemical Valley" downstream of Sarnia, Ontario, and ensuring proper notification when spills do occur.
The township of St. Clair is also undertaking improvements in wastewater infrastructure, including a pre-treatment facility, aeration tanks and blowers, ultra-violet disinfection, and dewatering facilities.
In fall 2005, a Canadian St. Clair River RAP Implementation Committee was re-established to guide implementation of the remaining remedial actions on the Canadian side of the AoC.
www.epa.gov /grtlakes/aoc/st-clair.html   (1172 words)

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