Michigan Administrative Code › Department - Environmental Quality › Water Resources Division › Great Lakes Bottomlands Preserve › Section R. 299.6008 - Marquette Great Lakes state bottomland preserve; establishment

Current through Vol. 24-12, July 15, 2024
Rule 8.
(1) The
				following described area is established as the Marquette unit of the Marquette
				Great Lakes state bottomland preserve:
A 74-square mile area of Lake Superior bottomland extending
				  upward and including the water surface described as: Beginning at the point
				  where the line between range 25 west and range 26 west in township 49 north,
				  Marquette County, Michigan, intersects the ordinary high waterline of Lake
				  Superior (elevation 601.5 international Great Lakes datum 1955), approximate
				  latitude 46 degrees 38 minutes 29 seconds north longitude 87 degrees 29 minutes
				  21 seconds west; thence northeasterly on a heading of 70 degrees a distance of
				  3.37 miles to the point at latitude 46 degrees 39.6 minutes north longitude 87
				  degrees 25.5 minutes west; thence southeasterly on a heading of 115 3/4 degrees
				  a distance of 2.64 miles to the point at latitude 46 degrees 38.2 minutes north
				  longitude 87 degrees 22.5 minutes west; thence southeasterly on a heading of
				  155 1/4 degrees a distance of 3.80 miles to the point at latitude 46 degrees
				  35.8 minutes north longitude 87 degrees 20.5 minutes west; thence southeasterly
				  on a heading of 126 degrees a distance of 5.89 miles to the point at latitude
				  46 degrees 32.2 minutes north longitude 87 degrees 14.8 minutes west; thence
				  northeasterly on a heading of 46 degrees a distance of 6.63 miles to the point
				  at latitude 46 degrees 36.0 minutes north longitude 87 degrees 08.5 minutes
				  west; thence southeasterly on a heading of 161 degrees a distance of 2.44 miles
				  to the point at latitude 46 degrees 34.8 minutes north longitude 87 degrees
				  07.5 minutes west; thence southerly a distance of 5.76 miles to the point where
				  the line between Marquette County and Alger County, Michigan, intersects the
				  ordinary high waterline of Lake Superior, approximate latitude 46 degrees 29.7
				  minutes north longitude 87 degrees 07.0 minutes west; thence westerly,
				  northerly, and northwesterly 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 following described area is
				established as the Huron islands unit of the Marquette Great Lakes state
				bottomland preserve:
An 89-square mile area of Lake Superior bottomland extending
				  upward and including the water surface described as: Beginning at the point
				  where the line between Baraga County and Marquette County, Michigan, intersects
				  the ordinary high waterline of Lake Superior (elevation 601.5 international
				  Great Lakes datum 1955), approximately latitude 46 degrees 54.7 minutes north
				  longitude 88 degrees 02.7 minutes west; thence due north a distance of 4.61
				  miles to the point at latitude 46 degrees 58.5 minutes north longitude 88
				  degrees 02.7 minutes west; thence due east a distance of 9.46 miles to the
				  point at latitude 46 degrees 58.5 minutes north longitude 87 degrees 50 minutes
				  west; thence southeasterly on a heading of 126 1/4 degrees a distance of 3.91
				  miles to the point at latitude 46 degrees 56.1 minutes north longitude 87
				  degrees 46.8 minutes west; thence southeasterly on a heading of 116 degrees a
				  distance of 5.26 miles to the point at latitude 46 degrees 54.4 minutes north
				  longitude 87 degrees 40.8 minutes west; thence due south a distance of 4.61
				  miles to a point on the ordinary high waterline of Lake Superior due north of
				  the big bay point light, approximate latitude 46 degrees 50.5 minutes north
				  longitude 87 degrees 40.8 minutes west; thence westerly, southerly, westerly,
				  northerly, and northwesterly along said ordinary high waterline to the point of
				  beginning, excluding that part of all islands within the described parcel above
				  the ordinary high waterline.
(3) The Marquette unit and the Huron islands
				unit are illustrated in the following figures:
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