General studies : November, 1967 / by John C. Ayers, Joseph C. K. Huang.

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and Orchard Beach. Second, these communities' buried collectors
together with temperature lags inherent in collection systems
should reduce and smooth temperature variations in their raw
water supplies.
Icing of Water Intakes
We cannot contribute to this subject anything in addition to,
or more pertinent than, the facts that the superintendents of the
Benton Harbor and St. Joseph water plants in telephone conversations
have both stated that their plants encounter no difficulties with
icing of intakes during winter.
5. SEICHES
In this section we follow the usage of the American Meteorological Society as set forth in their Glossary of Meteorology:
"In the Great Lakes area, [a seiche is] any sudden rise in the
water of a harbor or a lake, whether or not it is oscillatory.
Although inaccurate in the strict sense, this usage is well
established in the Great Lakes area."
A series of three articles by Platzman, Irish, and Hughes in
Monthly Weather Review, volume 93, number 5, May 1965, and a report
by the Illinois Division of Waterways in 1958 serve as sources of
much of the below as well as giving references to other pertinent
literature.
The records indicate that there are frequent small seiches
of a few inches amplitude. These are not regarded as being of
importance.