Just
the facts on the
Lake Superior Basin
Length.....350
miles
Breadth...160 miles
Depth..489 feet average
*Volume..2,935 mi3
Water surface area..31,7000 mi2
Shoreline length..2,700 miles
(including islands)
Outlet:...St. Marys River to Lak Huron
Retention/Replacement time: ...173 years
At its deepest point, Lake Superior would submerge the Empire State building.
* Lake Superior contains 3 quadrillion gallons of water. This is 10 percent of the world’s fresh surface water and half the water in the entire Great Lakes Basin
The Lake’s vast volume has also been calculated at just barely enough to meet the needs of a 17-year-old’s morning shower.
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| And sometimes it gets a little chilly in the Lake Superior Basin. |
Public
Marine Terminal
Operator: Lake Superior Warehousing Co., Inc.
1200 Port Terminal Drive
P.O. Box 16390
Duluth, MN USA 55816-0390
Phone: (218) 727-6646
FAX: (218) 727-6649
E-mail LSW2000@aol.com
Website: www.lswci.com
President: Gary Nicholson
Warehouse coordinator: Denise M. McDougall
Logistics coordinator: Brian Granholm
Lead stevedore: Tim Rogers
Lead stevedore: Zoran Pedisic
Office assistant: Ruth Delich
NORTH STAR PORT
Magazine
of the Duluth Seaway Port
Authority Summer
2006
Volume 38, Number 2
Duluth Seaway Port Authority
Duluth, MN USA 55802
Phone: (218) 727-8525
(800) 232-0703
Fax: (218) 727-6888
E-mail:
admin@duluthport.com
www.duluthport.com
Commissioners
Bill Kron, Duluth, president
Steve Raukar, Hibbing, vice president
Janet E. Nelson, Duluth, secretary
Thomas Cashman, Mankato, treasurer
Thomas A. Clure, Duluth, assistant treasurer
Cal Larson, Fergus Falls
Ray Klosowski, Duluth
Administration
Executive director: Adolph N. Ojard
Port promotion manager: Lisa Marciniak
Executive assistant: Becky McMillan
Secretary: Anne Mann
Property
Development
Industrial and economic development director: Andy McDonough
Facilities manager: Jim Sharrow
Foreign trade zone manager: Ray Skelton
Legal
Counsel
Robert C. Maki, Maki & Overom, Duluth
Finance
Chief financial officer: John A. Kubow
Accountant: Lori Yecoshenko
Accounting
technician: Shellie Golden
Maritime
Commerce
Trade development director: Ronald L. Johnson
Environmental and government
affairs director: Ray Skelton
On
the front:
An oceangoing vessel, at anchor off the Harrbor, waits to enter the Port
of Duluth-Superior.
Photo by Jack Rendulich
On
the back:
Equipment loaded on the Margaretha Green, destined for Jindal Steel in
India (see story on Page 11), frames Duluth’s famed Aerial Lift
Bridge.
Photo by Ken Newhams, Duluth Shipping News
This
quarterly magazine is prepared by Fortner WordWorks of Duluth and printed
by
Service
Printers of Duluth