Lake Maxinkuckee, Physical and Biological Survey 27 



Tributary streams: Lake Maxinkuckee is a body of water in 

 which the physical and biological conditions are bunched ; the lake 

 is only of moderate size and regular in form ; its catchment basin 

 is quite limited, it being hardly more than three times as large 

 as the area of the lake itself, and there are no important connect- 

 ing streams or other waters which complicate the conditions. The 

 streams flowing into the lake are few in number and inconsider- 

 able in size. There are only three deserving any special descrip- 

 tion; these are known as Culver Creek, Aubeenaubee Creek, and 

 Norris Inlet. 



Culver Creek: This creek enters Aubeenaubee Bay at the 

 northeast corner of the lake. It rises in a small marsh about 2 

 miles from the lake, and pursues a winding course in a general 

 southwesterly direction, entering the lake in the eastern part of 

 the Culver Military Academy grounds. Just before entering the 

 Academy grounds, this creek turns abruptly to the west, and, after 

 flowing a few rods in that direction, turns southward to enter the 

 lake. At the first bend mentioned, the stream, on August 21, 

 1900, was about 4 feet wide, and with a maximum depth of three 

 feet, though the average depth was not more than two feet. From 

 this point it increases in width and depth through the Academy 

 grounds where the banks have been improved by sodding. Much 

 marsh gas comes up when the bottom is disturbed. There is 

 everywhere an abundance of aquatic vegetation, chiefly Philotria 

 canadensis, Ceratophyllum demersum and Potamogeton. An effort 

 is made by the Academy authorities to keep the lower portion of 

 this creek free of vegetation by dredging it out with rakes (as 

 explained elsewhere). 



Aubeenaubee Creek, named for the Pottawattomie chief who 

 at one time owned the land on the east side of the lake, rises in 

 a small marsh some two miles east of the lake. This creek flows 

 through a low level meadow or prairie region. It averages about 

 four feet wide and from a few inches to a foot in depth with 

 occasional deeper holes. The bed in the upper part of its course 

 is usually of fairly compact sand with some admixture of muck, 

 and its banks are sodded and rather firm. In the lower portion 

 of its course, the shores are more marshy, the banks less stable, 

 and the bed has an increasingly larger percentage of muck. 

 Throughout most of its length this creek is overhung by bushes 

 and briars and is full of sticks and brush. It enters the lake at 

 the Edwards boathouse near the middle of the east side of the 

 lake, or S 1 /^ rods south of section line No. 28. 



