InfoSuperior - July 3, 2018

July 3, 2018

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Photo: Thank you Michigan Nut, Photography by John McCormick. This is a photo of the shipwreck "Mary Jarecki" at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan. The "Mary Jarecki" was a wooden bulk freight steam ship of 645 tons, 200 ft. in length. It grounded on Au Sable Reef and went down on July 4, 1883. She lost her way in one of the heavy fogs that frequent the area.

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Houghton Area Hammered

Flooding at Dodge Street, Houghton, Michigan, June 17, 2018 Informing All Watershed Residents Michigan's Houghton area, on the Keweenaw Peninsula, where the Portage Shipping Canal cuts completely across the peninsula, was heavily damaged by a storm which swept through the region between June 15th and 17th. Wisconsin and Minnesota were also impacted with heavy rain, hail and damaging winds. This is …

Lake Superior Pow-Wows

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NASA Monitoring from Granite Island on Lake Superior

The CERES FM6 instrument that was launched on the JPSS-1 spacecraft. Image Credit: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. One of NASAs monitoring systems, usually set up on a satellite, is reaching new ground. NASA is setting up a new monitoring site for their Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) experiment on Lake Superior's Granite Island in Michigan. This project …

Lakewood Lane Beaches near Marquette, Michigan

"Nurdles" Now Reported From U.S. Side

Plastic pellets. or nurdles, are now being reported from the U.S. side of Lake Superior. Marquette, Michigan resident Dan Wiitala reports that he first observed large quantities of the nurdles on Lakewood Lane Beach near Marquette, Michigan (pictured) in May. Previously reported from the Canadian side of Lake Superior, from Nipigon Bay eastward, nurdles are now being reported from the …

Lake Superior view at Rock Island Lodge.

Lake Superior Places: Rock Island Lodge

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