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Contents Figures INTRODUCTION STATE OF MICHIGAN Discharge.......................................................................11 Fluctuations of the Water Table ...................................11 PROGRESS REPORT NUMBER SEVENTEEN Seasonal Fluctuations....................................................11 Reconnaissance of the Ground-Water Fluctuations Due to Discharge from Wells .....................12 Resources of Chippewa County, Michigan Utilization of Ground Water ..........................................12 by QUALITY OF WATER.....................................................12 K. E. Vanlier and Morris Deutsch Fresh Ground Water ....................................................13 Prepared cooperatively by the United States Department Highly Mineralized Ground Water ................................13 of the Interior Geological Survey Surface Water ..............................................................13 1958 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS..................................14 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY .........................................14 Contents INTRODUCTION............................................................... 1 Figures Purpose and Scope of Study......................................... 1 Figure 1. Index map showing location of Chippewa County, Mich. ................................................................................2 Previous Investigations.................................................. 2 Figure 2. Map of the Upper Great Lakes region showing areas Acknowledgment ........................................................... 2 of sediment deposition in glacial Lake Algonquin and Well-Numbering System................................................ 2 other extinct glacial lakes. ................................................3 GEOGRAPHY................................................................... 2 Figure 3. Map of Chippewa, Mackinac, and Luce Counties showing major drainage basins and drainage areas Location and Extent of Chippewa County ..................... 2 tributary to the Great Lakes system. ................................4 Population...................................................................... 2 Figure 4. Block diagram showing schematic geologic cross- section through the Michigan basin..................................6 Economic Development................................................. 3 Figure 5. Generalized geologic section through the eastern Agriculture ........................................................................3 end of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan. .....................6 Industry.............................................................................3 Recreation ........................................................................3 Figure 6. Hydrograph of well 46N 4W 24-1 near Raco Transportation ..................................................................3 compared with graphs of temperature and precipitation Physiography................................................................. 3 recorded at Sault Ste. Marie, 1952-56. ..........................12 Relief ................................................................................4 Figure 7. Chemical composition of water in Chippewa Drainage...........................................................................4 County............................................................................13 Climate........................................................................... 4 [Note: See document ____ for tables and plates.] GEOLOGY ........................................................................ 5 Summary of Geologic History........................................ 5 INTRODUCTION Structure ........................................................................ 5 GROUND WATER ............................................................ 6 Purpose and Scope of Study Occurrence and Availability........................................... 6 A ground-water reconnaissance of the eastern part of the Northern Peninsula on a county unit basis was Ground Water in Consolidated Rocks ..............................7 Precambrian rocks................................................................... 7 begun in 1955 as part of the continuing cooperative Sandstone and sandy dolomite of Late Cambrian and Early agreement between the Michigan Department of Ordovician age......................................................................... 7 Conservation and the U. S. Geological Survey. The Limestone and dolomite of Middle Ordovician age.................. 7 objective of the reconnaissance is to determine the Shale of Late Ordovician age. ................................................. 8 Limestone and dolomite of Late Ordovician age. .................... 8 general occurrence, availability, quantity, and quality of Limestone and dolomite of Early and Middle Silurian age....... 8 ground water in the study area. To make the results Ground Water in Unconsolidated Deposits.......................9 available to the public with the least possible delay, Moraines.................................................................................. 9 progress reports are to be released upon completion of Till plains or ground moraines................................................ 10 each reconnaissance study of an appropriate areal unit. Outwash plains. ..................................................................... 10 Lake plains. ........................................................................... 10 This report is the first of the series of reconnaissance Dunes and beaches............................................................... 10 reports, and it summarizes the ground-water data Ground-Water Phase of the Hydrologic Cycle ............ 10 obtained in Chippewa County during the initial phase of the investigation. The data are presented in this manner Source and Recharge Areas ..........................................10 Movement.......................................................................11 primarily to aid well drillers, contractors, industrialists, farmers, and the public at large in evaluating the ground- Progress Report 17 – Page 1 of 15 water resources of any given area of Chippewa County. A summary description of the major lithologic units is given, which may have application in future explorations for water or other mineral resources. Cooperative ground-water investigations by the U. S. Geological Survey in Michigan are directed jointly by A. N. Sayre, Chief of the Ground Water Branch, U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C., and W. L. Daoust, State Geologist, Michigan Department of Conservation, Lansing, Mich., and are under the direct supervision of Morris Deutsch, who succeeded J. G. Ferris, of the Federal Survey, in Lansing. Previous Investigations Various phases of the geology and hydrology of this area are described in numerous reports of detailed and reconnaissance investigations made in the Northern Peninsula of Michigan since 1821. An investigation of flowing-well districts in the eastern end of the Northern Peninsula was made by Frank Leverett (1906). A detailed investigation of the stratigraphy and glacial features of the county was made by W. A. VerWiebe (1928). In 1949, a reconnaissance of the water resources in the eastern end of the peninsula with reference to the probable effect on ground-water levels of a Lake Superior-level canal through the peninsula was made by J. G. Ferris, L. A. Wood, and E. A. Moulder of the U. S. Geological Survey. Many of the data used in this report were collected during that survey. Pertinent data contained in several reports listed in the bibliography (p. 52) were used freely as source material for this project, and appropriate references to them are Figure 1. Index map showing location of Chippewa County, made in the text, Mich. Acknowledgment GEOGRAPHY Special thanks are given to the many well drillers and residents of Chippewa County and to the Federal, State, Location and Extent of Chippewa County and county agencies whose wholehearted cooperation made this report possible. Appreciation is expressed Chippewa County is at the eastern end of the Northern also to personnel of the Michigan Geological Survey who Peninsula of Michigan (fig 1). The county, including furnished much valuable advice and assistance. Sugar, Neebish, and Drummond Islands and other smaller offshore islands (pl. 1), has an area of about Well-Numbering System 1,600 square miles. Of irregular shape, it spans a distance of about 100 airline miles from its northwestern The well-numbering system used in the report indicates corner on the Lake Superior shore to the eastern end of the location of the wells within the rectangular Drummond Island. Including the islands, the county has subdivisions of the public lands, with reference to the a shoreline length of almost 400 miles, of which about Michigan meridian and base line. The first two 180 miles is mainland shoreline. The international segments of a well number designate the township, and boundary with Canada trends in a southeasterly range; the third segment designates the section and the direction and is drawn through a series of waterways number assigned to each well within the section. Thus, including Lake Superior, St. Marys River, and Lake well 44N 2W 8-3 is well number 3 in section 8, Township Huron. Sault Ste. Marie, the county seat, is on the south 44 North, Range 2 West. Numbers formerly assigned to bank of the St. Marys River directly opposite the city of wells and test borings included
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