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Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Restoration Assessment (GLCWRA) Upper Peninsula, U.S.: Degree Flowlines

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2021

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Pettersen-Bradford, M.R., Hopkins A.L., Sanocki, C.A., Bozimowski, A.A., and Kowalski, K.P., 2023, Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Restoration Assessment (GLCWRA) Upper Peninsula, U.S.: Degree Flowlines: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FHAWXC.

Summary

This dataset is part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Restoration Assessment (GLCWRA) initiative. These data represent the flowline network in the Upper Peninsula Restoration Assessment (UPRA). It is attributed with the number of disconnections (e.g., road crossings) between the reach and Lake Ontario. The more road crossings on a flowline the more disconnected that area is from the lake and the less suitable it will be for restoration. These data help identify the condition of hydrologic separation between potential restoration areas and Lake Ontario. Low numbers represent fewer disconnections, such as culverts, between the reach and the water body requiring no flow network modification to restore the [...]

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UPRA_Culverts.zip 11.13 KB application/zip
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Purpose

The purpose of the Degree Flowlines dataset is to quantify the degrees of hydraulic separation between each reach (stream) from Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. The higher the degree of separation, the less connected the river/stream is to the hydroperiod of the lake. Ultimately, reducing hydrologic disconnections of the coastal areas to the Great Lakes would benefit a coastal wetland restoration project.

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