Rivers: the Stream This Ground Drains To

The Yellow River does not rise in Union Township — and the correction prints here so it does not travel. The river is a 62.3-mile tributary of the Kankakee, draining 427 square miles into the Mississippi system. Its present-day course is considered to begin at a confluence of agricultural ditches in south-eastern St. Joseph County, about four miles north of Bremen (GNIS source 41.49833° N, 86.15222° W) — east of Union Township, not in its lakes. What this township contributes is drainage: its southern ground, lakes, and marsh-ditch network lie inside the Headwaters Yellow River Watershed — some 187,300 acres, its management plan approved by IDEM and EPA in May 2018 — and Pleasant Lake and Riddles Lake are listed in that record for high phosphorus, the documented present-day river-system fact that touches this ground directly. The course out runs south past Bremen, south-west through Plymouth, then west in a substantially straightened channel past Knox to the Kankakee near English Lake (downstream facts, printed as the river's course). The name prints as a conflict, whole: Miami-Illinois oonsasiipi in the river article's linguistic note (its gloss truncated in the carrier reached and not completed — completing it from a fragment would be invention) against a second telling's Shawnee We-thau-ka-mik, "yellow water"; neither is promoted. No named outlet stream for either lake was reached in any carrier — a named gap (settler: the National Hydrography Dataset flowlines and the watershed plan's segment map) — and no flood of the Yellow or of any township stream at Lakeville was reached in any carrier: a headwaters township floods as local water, which the press record reached does not file under the river's name. The Kankakee relation stands at pointer to the land file: the Yellow is its second-largest tributary, and this township sits south of the continental parting that makes its water Mississippi water.