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Cleanups planned for Coastweeks
The News-Messenger (9/2)
Ohio's 2008 Coastweeks observance will again focus on the preservation and protection of Lake Erie and its watershed through a variety of cleanup events along the shoreline and throughout its watershed.
Maritime Academy may hike maritime tuition up to 57%
Traverse City Record-Eagle (8/27)
Some of next year's students at the Great Lakes Maritime Academy could face tuition rate hikes of 50 percent or more.
Students build wind turbines
WTVG-TV Toledo (8/27)
Science students at Clay high school will soon have a way to measure the wind and how much power it can produce. This grant-funded project will provide data on how well turbines produce power in the changeable wind environment near the lake.
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Where are all of the locks located in the Great Lakes?
from Anita in New York, New York, Age 37
There are nineteen separate locks located in the Great Lakes and rivers that make up the St. Lawrence Seaway. They routinely raise a variety of ships up to more than 180 meters above sea level. These locks are located in the following canals:
- The South Shore Canal contains two locks that lie 14 nautical miles from the Port of Montreal to the Port of St. Louis
- The Beauharnois Canal contains two locks that link Lake St. Louis to Lake St. Francis
- The Wiley-Dondero Canal contains two locks that provide access to Lake St. Lawrence
- The Iroquois Canal contains one lock that connects the St. Lawrence River to Lake Ontario
- The Welland Canal contains eight locks connecting Lake Ontario to Lake Erie
- The St. Mary's Falls Canal contains four locks linking Lake Huron to Lake Superior at Sault Ste. Marie.
Related references:
TEACH: Great Lakes Ports and Shipping -- To the ocean and beyond
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System: Locks, Canals, and Channels
Great Lakes Atlas, 3rd ed.: People and the Great Lakes -- Canals, Shipping, and Transportation
Photo Tour of the St. Lawrence Seaway
Thank you for your question!
Answered on July 20, 2001