Basin countries United States Area 7.183 km² | Surface area 1,270 acres (5.1 km) | |
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Location Van Buren Township, Wayne County, Michigan Similar Huron River, Lower Huron Metropark, Belleville Area Museum, Highland Cemetery, Yankee Air Museum | ||
Belleville Lake is a 2-square-mile man-made lake located in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It was created in 1925 by the Eastern Michigan Edison Company, by damming the Huron River. The 28-foot-high dam was the last in a series of five dams along the river, creating electricity from hydropower until 1962. The hydropower plant was refurbished in 1988 and has a nameplate production of 1.7 MW. It contains 17,780 acre-feet of water in the seven-mile-long lake. The small community of Rawsonville was flooded out by the dam.
Map of Belleville Lake, Michigan 48111, USA
The lake is used for boating and fishing, although the dam has restricted the passage of some fish species and eliminated a commercial mussel fishery which provided mother of pearl for buttons in the early 1900s A 2002 EPA report listed the water quality as good but algae blooms from phosphorus run-off are a known issue.