Michigan Administrative Code
Department - Environmental Quality
Water Resources Division
Great Lakes Bottomlands Preserve
Section R. 299.6009 - Keweenaw Great Lakes state bottomland preserve; establishment
Current through Vol. 24-04, March 15, 2024
Rule 9.
(1) The following described area is established as the Keweenaw Great Lakes state bottomland preserve:
A 243-square mile area of Lake Superior bottomland extending upward and including the water surface described as: Beginning at the point where the line between section 25 and section 26 of township 55 north of range 36 west, Houghton County, Michigan, intersects the ordinary high waterline of Lake Superior (elevation 601.5 international Great Lakes datum 1955), approximate latitude 47 degrees 07.8 minutes north longitude 88 degrees 49.7 minutes west; thence due north a distance of 6.91 miles to the point at latitude 47 degrees 13 minutes north longitude 88 degrees 49.7 minutes west; thence northeasterly on a heading of 56 3/4 degrees a distance of 27.20 miles to the point at latitude 47 degrees 26 minutes north longitude 88 degrees 20 minutes west; thence northeasterly on a heading of 73 1/2 degrees a distance of 8.14 miles to the point at latitude 47 degrees 28.5 minutes north longitude 88 degrees 10 minutes west; thence northeasterly on a heading of 81 3/4 degrees a distance of 15.78 miles to the point at latitude 47 degrees 30 minutes north longitude 87 degrees 50 minutes west; thence southeasterly on a heading of 111 1/2 degrees a distance of 12.59 miles to the point at latitude 47 degrees 26 minutes north longitude 87 degrees 35 minutes west; thence southeasterly on a heading of 126 1/2 degrees a distance of 1.94 miles to the point at latitude 47 degrees 25 minutes north longitude 87 degrees 33 minutes west; thence southwesterly on a heading of 233 1/2 degrees a distance of 1.94 miles to the point at latitude 47 degrees 24 minutes north longitude 87 degrees 335 minutes west; thence southwesterly on a heading of 252 1/2 degrees a distance of 15.56 miles to the point at latitude 47 degrees 20.7 minutes north longitude 87 degrees 54 minutes west; thence due west a distance of 1.57 miles to the point where the line between section 14 and section 15 of township 57 north of range 29 west, Keweenaw County, Michigan, intersects the ordinary high waterline of Lake Superior, approximate latitude 47 degrees 20.7 minutes north longitude 87 degrees 56.3 minutes west; thence northeasterly, northwesterly, northeasterly, easterly, northerly, northwesterly, and southwesterly along the ordinary high waterline to the point of beginning, excluding that part of all islands within the described parcel above the ordinary high waterline.
(2) The Keweenaw Great Lakes state bottomland preserve is illustrated in figure 1 as follows:
