The Maumee Torrent was a catastrophic draining of Glacial Lake Maumee, the ancestor of present-day Lake Erie, that occurred during the late Wisconsin glaciation. It happened when the waters of Lake Maumee, possibly in response to an advance of the ice front at the eastern end of the lake, overtopped a "sag" or low spot in the Fort Wayne Moraine, which was a deposit of glacial debris that acted as a nautral dam at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana. This unleashed a massive flow of water that scoured a one- to two-mile-wide outlet running southwest to the Wabash River known as the Wabash-Erie Channel, which probably followed the course of earlier, less massive drainage. The channel or "sluiceway," now dry except for a small stream called the Little River (also sometimes called the "Little Wabash River"), is the largest topographical feature in Allen County, Indiana. As much as 30 feet of fine sand, silt and organic sediments were deposited in the channel before drainage reversed and was captured by the present-day Maumee River. U.S. Route 24 between Fort Wayne and Huntington follows the channel. Glacial Lake Maumee was a proglacial lake that was an ancestor of present-day Lake Erie. ... Lake Erie (pronounced ) is the eleventh largest lake on Earth[2] and, of the five Great Lakes of North America, it is the fourth largest by surface area, the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume. ... The Wisconsin (in North America), Weichsel (in Scandinavia), Devensian (in the British Isles), Midlandian (in Ireland) and Würm glaciation (in the Alps) are the most recent glaciations of the Pleistocene, which ended around 10,000 BC. The general glacial advance began about 70,000 BC, and reached its maximum... In geology, a sag is a former river bed which has been partially filled with debris from glaciation or other natural processes but which is still visible in the surface terrain. ... Moraine at Mono Lake, California, United States Moraines clearly seen on a side glacier of the Gorner Glacier, Zermatt, Switzerland. ... Nickname: The Summit City Location in the state of Indiana, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Indiana County Allen Founded October 22, 1794 Mayor Graham Richard (D) Area    - City 204. ... The Wabash River at Lafayette, Indiana, showing the Main Street bridge, and the Amtrak station. ... The Little River is a small stream in Allen and Huntington counties in northeastern Indiana. ... It has been suggested that Geomorphometry be merged into this article or section. ... Allen County is the largest county (by area) located in the U.S. state of Indiana. ... Stream capture is a geological or hydrological phenomenon which occurs when a stream from a neighboring drainage system erodes through the divide between two streams and captures another stream which then is diverted from its former bed and now flows down the bed of the capturing stream. ... The Maumee River at Grand Rapids, Ohio. ... U.S. Route 24, a dual north-south/east-west route, is one of the original United States highways of 1926. ... Huntington is a city located in Huntington County, Indiana. ...

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• Water Resource Availability in the Maumee River Basin, Indiana, Water Resource Assessment 96-5, Indianapolis:Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water, 1996, p. 37; p. 48. May be found in pdf format at [1]