Beaver Beacon reports December 1988 Lake Michigan–Huron level, 1989

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Event

Date: 1988-12-31
Kind: Observation
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: hydrologygeographyenvironmentcommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The January 1989 issue reports the December 1988 Lake Michigan–Huron level as 578.04 feet above the Father Point reference, with year-over-year and monthly comparisons.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper reproduction of a federal lake-level report, not the gauge series or engineering dataset itself.

Sources

“Lake Levels,” Beaver Beacon, January 1989.
Reports the end-of-December Lake Michigan–Huron elevation as 578.04 feet above mean water level at Father Point, about 11 inches below the prior year and 3 inches below the prior month. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, January 1989, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held twenty-page January issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon reports December 1988 Lake Michigan–Huron level, 1989”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-lake-levels-december-1988-report-1989/, accessed [date], citing “Lake Levels,” Beaver Beacon, January 1989. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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