This week Bill takes us to a couple of geographic watershed anomalies
You are on the back roads, and you see a picnic lake, a trout fishing stream, or a wetland that matters, do you wonder where the water is going?
Recently the quest was on to locate these places. It is more than just putting a pin on a digital map. And there is more to these boundaries than just the bragging rights of getting to a unique back roads location. First off see the map. “The boundary of a watershed is defined by the highest elevations surrounding a lake or river segment. A drop of water falling outside of the boundary will drain into another watershed.
In an email she responded, “The waters of Long Lake originally flowed north towards the Hudson’s Bay but was diverted to flow south towards Lake Superior to accommodate logging and hydro-electric industries.” There is currently a series of control dams which regulate the flow of the altered system which now flows south.
I contacted the author Peter Annin in Ashland, Wisconsin. “Spanning 1,700 feet —or more than five football fields it is more than 450 feet longer than the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. It is by far the largest inter-basin water transfer project ever built in the Great Lakes region. Another example, is New Post Falls, north of Smooth Rock Falls and the Abitibi Canyon, it is a more recent and a different water diversion project. You know the author.
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