It starts two and half miles offshore (1,2). Five cylindrical stone structures called “cribs” gulp water from the vast expanse of Lake Michigan (1,2,3). Swaddling an intake shaft, each one pulses water through a tunnel carved from the bedrock, bound for shore. Making landfall, the water whooshes through filters, leaving behind rogue fish that joined […]
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