Abstract
The (Wisconsin) Fox River rises near the city of Portage and flows in a north-easterly direction a distance of about 60 miles when it discharges into Lake Winnebago at the city of Oshkosh. Just before it reaches the lake the Fox River is joined from the North by the Wolf River which delivers water from a larger drainage area than the upper Fox River. Lake Winnebago has a surface area as great as any natural fresh water lake within the limits of the United States with the exception of Lake Michigan. It is about 30 miles long and 10 miles wide at the centre and has 215 square miles of surface. It is quite shallow with an average depth of about 15 feet and a maximum depth of 22 feet. It was formed when the retreating glaciers left a natural dam across the valley, this dam being on a line east from the the city of Menasha. The lower Fox River on which the city of Appleton is located carries the overflow from Lake Winnebago to Green Bay. The drainage area contributing to its flow amounts to about 6,150 square miles. The amount of water discharged from Lake Winnebago is controlled to a certain extent at the Menasha dam by government engineers. The annual mean daily stream flow for the past six years in cubic feet per second was as follows:
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