The Bad River is a
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Michigan
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. It rises in
Newark Township near the city of
Ithaca in
Gratiot County and flows in a north-easterly direction into
Saginaw County, and through the village of
St. Charles, before emptying into the
Shiawassee River within the bounds of the
Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge.
The river and its tributaries have a total combined length of ; most of it
channelized
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Typical channelization methods include packetizing, frequency-d ...
.
[ Land use within the surrounding watershed is 86.5 percent agricultural; as a result, the river system has been adversely impacted by ]sedimentation
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.
See also
*List of rivers of Michigan
This list of Michigan rivers includes all streams designated rivers although some may be smaller than those streams designated creeks, runs, brooks, swales, cuts, bayous, outlets, inlets, drains and ditches. These terms are all in use in Michigan. ...
References
Rivers of Michigan
Rivers of Gratiot County, Michigan
Rivers of Saginaw County, Michigan
Tributaries of Lake Huron
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