U. S. Geological Survey

Water Resources of Michigan

An Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler Survey of Flow Velocities in Detroit River, a Connecting Channel of the Great Lakes

US Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-219

Prepared in cooperation with the
MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, DETROIT WATER AND SEWERAGE DEPARTMENT, and the AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Lansing, Michigan
March 2003

By: David J. Holtschlag and John A. Koschik


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Table of Contents including Figures, Tables, Appendices, Conversion Factors and Datums:
http://mi.water.usgs.gov/pubs/OF/OF03-219/OF03-219TOC.php

Abstract

Acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCP) were used to survey flow velocities in Detroit River from July 8-19, 2002, as part of a study to assess the susceptibility of public water intakes to contaminants on the St. Clair-Detroit River Waterway. More than 3.5 million point velocities were measured at 130 cross sections. Cross sections were generally spaced about 1,800 ft apart along the river from the head of Detroit River at the outlet of Lake St. Clair to the mouth of Detroit River on Lake Erie. Two transects were surveyed at each cross section, one in each direction across the river. Along each transect, velocity profiles were generally obtained 0.8-2.2 ft apart. At each velocity profile, average water velocity data were obtained at 1.64 ft intervals of depth. The raw position and velocity data from the ADCP field survey were adjusted for local magnetic anomalies using global positioning system (GPS) measurements at the end points of the transects. The adjusted velocity and ancillary data can be retrieved though the internet and extracted to column-oriented data files.

Citation:

Holtschlag, David J.and John A. Koschik, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 2003, An Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler Survey of Flow Velocities in Detroit River, a Connecting Channel of the Great Lakes, Date Posted: August 12, 2003, US Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-219 [http://mi.water.usgs.gov/pubs/OF/OF03-219/index.php]

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