Today’s Lake Five · No. 21
Five questions about Lake Erie and Cleveland’s waterfront. Tap an answer; the explanation and source open underneath.
Answer: The most productive for fish
Shallow, warm water makes Lake Erie the most biologically productive of the Great Lakes and home to one of the largest freshwater fisheries in the world.
Answer: 1947
Operations began in August 1947 on a 3,600-foot dirt runway.
Source: Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Burke Lakefront Airport
Answer: In the ballast water of ocean-going ships
They are thought to have arrived in ballast water discharged by a transatlantic freighter.
Source: USGS: What are zebra mussels and why should we care about them?
Answer: About 20 minutes
It lasted about 20 minutes, with flames reported as high as five stories, and damaged a railroad bridge.
Source: Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Cuyahoga River Fire
Answer: The Cleveland-Cliffs fleet
It carried ore, coal, stone and grain for the Cleveland-Cliffs Steamship Co., which donated it in 1987.
Source: Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Steamship William G. Mather Museum
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