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Cooperative water-resources monitoring in the St. Clair River/Lake St. Clair Basin, Michigan

Open-File Report 2007-1148
Prepared in cooperation with the Lake St. Clair Regional Monitoring Project, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, and Macomb, Oakland, St. Clair, and Wayne Counties, Michigan
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20071148

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Abstract

As part of the Lake St. Clair Regional Monitoring Project, this report describes numerous cooperative water-resources monitoring efforts conducted in the St. Clair River/Lake St. Clair Basin over the last 100 years. Cooperative monitoring is a tool used to observe and record changes in water quantity and quality over time. This report describes cooperative efforts for monitoring streamflows and flood magnitudes, past and present water-quality conditions, significant human-health threats, and flow-regime changes that are the result of changing land use. Water-resources monitoring is a long-term effort that can be made cost-effective by leveraging funds, sharing data, and avoiding duplication of effort. Without long-term cooperative monitoring, future water-resources managers and planners may find it difficult to establish and maintain public supply, recreational, ecological, and esthetic water-quality goals for the St. Clair River/Lake St. Clair Basin.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Cooperative water-resources monitoring in the St. Clair River/Lake St. Clair Basin, Michigan
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 2007-1148
DOI 10.3133/ofr20071148
Year Published 2007
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) Michigan Water Science Center
Description iv, 41 p.
Country United States
State Michigan
Other Geospatial Lake St. Clair Basin, St. Clair River
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