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	Lake Union
		Lake Union is a freshwater lake completely within the Seattle, Washington city limits.
		A glacial lake, its basin was dug 12,000 years ago by the Vashon glacier, which also created Lake Washington, and Seattle's Green[?], Bitter[?], and Haller Lakes[?].
		Part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal system, water flows into it from Lake Washington through the Montlake Cut[?], and out the Fremont Cut[?] on its way to Puget Sound.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/la/Lake_Union.html (139 words)

	Lake Washington Overview and Detailed Graphs, King County, Washington
		Lake Washington is the largest of the three major lakes in King County, and the second largest natural lake in the State of Washington.
		Lake Washington is perhaps the best example in the world of successful lake restoration by the diversion of sewage, and has been extensively studied and researched.
		The basin of Lake Washington is a deep, narrow, glacial trough with steeply sloping sides, sculpted by the Vashon ice sheet, the last continental glacier to move through the Seattle area.
	dnr.metrokc.gov /wlr/waterres/lakes/LakeWashington.htm (528 words)

	Rivers: Lake Washington Basin - Lake Washington Summary Hydrograph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Lake Washington Ship Canal is operated primarily as a navigation facility connecting Puget Sound and Lakes Union and Washington.
		The storage between 20 and 22 feet is used to augment Lake Washington Ship Canal inflows for use in operating the locks, the saltwater return system, the smolt passage flume, and the fish ladder facility.
		The level of Lake Washington was lowered about 8 feet by the construction of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, but it is still the second largest natural lake in the state, with a surface area of 22,138 acres and shoreline of about 91 miles at elevation 22 feet.
	www.nwd-wc.usace.army.mil /nws/hh/basins/lwscsh.html (243 words)

	Lake Washington Ship Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lake Washington Ship Canal, which runs through Seattle, Washington connecting Lake Washington to Puget Sound, is a system consisting of, from east to west, Union Bay, the Montlake Cut, Portage Bay, Lake Union, the Fremont Cut, Salmon Bay, the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, and Shilshole Bay.
		In 1916 the water level of Lake Washington dropped by nearly nine feet (3 m) when the Montlake Cut was completed, replacing the Black River as the lake's outlet in favor of Portage Bay and Lake Union.
		The Lake Washington Ship Canal and the Chittenden Locks are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Washington_Ship_Canal (278 words)

	Ship Canal Village Home
		Ship Canal Village is a proposed mixed use development comprised, approximately, of 32 acres along the Lake Washington Ship Canal between Union Lake and Salmon Bay.
		The area is aligned with the Lake Washington Ship Canal on the north, and West Nickerson Street on the south, lying between 3rd Avenue West and 11th Avenue West.
		The Ship Canal Village project development proposes a mixed-use consisting of mid-rise residential condominium towers, a mid-rise hotel tower, and several low-rise buildings consisting of small boutique retail, marketplace grocery retail, restaurant and professional office spaces.
	www.shipcanalvillage.com (248 words)

	Wrecks of Lake Washington
		The lake is approximately 20 miles long encompassing 71.5 miles of shoreline and 28 square miles of land.
		The lake was already mature when the eruption that produced Oregon’s Crater Lake left a telltale layer of ash on the bottom about 6,800 years ago.
		The lake bottom has a ‘W’ shaped profile, with steep sides plunging to a floor which gently rises in the center due to the movement of silt by seasonal convection currents.
	www.nwrain.com /~newtsuit/recoveries/lkwash/lkwash.htm (2090 words)

	Salmon Bay Marina \| marinas Seattle
		The Department of Fisheries is closing the waters on the Lake Washington Ship Canal to construction through September due to fish migration.
		The Washington State fish psychologists (Department of Fisheries) have determined that some fish do not like to swim in the shade, therefore covered moorage and even floats are "bad" for fish.
		We are fortunate to have a well-built marina on pile in the Lake Washington Federal Ship Canal.
	www.salmonbaymarina.com /Marinas_Seattle.htm (1046 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Lake Washington Ship Canal -- A Snapshot History
		The canal required digging cuts between Salmon Bay and Lake Union at Fremont and between Lake Union and Lake Washington at Montlake, and building four bascule bridges at Fremont, Ballard, the University District, and Montlake.
		The south canal was abandoned, although Semple pursued landfills and waterway improvements on the Duwamish until his funds were exhausted in 1904.
		The Washington State Legislature endorsed the northern route in 1900 and the federal government began deepening the channel leading from Shilshole Bay to the Ballard wharves in 1906.
	www.historylink.org /output.cfm?file_id=1444 (906 words)

	Lake Washington Summary
		Lake Washington's biological oxygen demand (BOD), a critical measure of water purity, decreased by 90 percent and fish species that had disappeared were once again found in the lake.
		Lake Washington is the second largest natural lake in Washington State, USA, after Lake Chelan, and the largest lake in King County.
		It is situated between Seattle to the west, Bellevue to the east, Renton to the south, and Kenmore to the north, and surrounds Mercer Island.
	www.bookrags.com /Lake_Washington (966 words)

	Lake Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lake Washington is located just east of Seattle and a boat launch ramp is only 10 minutes from my house.
		It is fed mainly by the Cedar River in the southeastern part of the lake and also by the Sammamish Slough at the north end.
		The lake is extremely deep in places and the mixture of cover that can be found in the lake is incredible.
	avondell.com /fishing/lkwash.html (452 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Drawbridge Operations Regulations; Lake Washington Ship Canal, WA
		The closed draw of the Montlake Bridge across the Lake Washington Ship Canal, mile 5.2, at Seattle, Washington, provides 48 feet of vertical clearance above the mean regulated lake level of Lake Washington for the central 100 feet of the bascule span.
		While the Lake Washington Ship Canal does bear some commercial navigation beneath the Montlake Bridge, most of the draw openings are for sailboats.
		Many of the tugs that operate on this part of the canal are able to pass under the drawbridge in its closed position.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2001/November/Day-29/i29644.htm (1494 words)

	I-LABS: Andrew Meltzoff - Social-Cognitive Research Lab
		The Institute is on the south side of the university's Seattle campus, adjacent to the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
		Her area of expertise is as a behavioral coder; she has been the lab's resident coder on studies of imitation (newborn to 3 years), intention, affect, and preference, as well as on studies of object permanence and joint visual attention.
		Before coming to the University of Washington, she graduated with honors from the University of Illinois, with a bachelor of science degree in Biology and a minor in Chemistry.
	ilabs.washington.edu /meltzoff/about_the_lab.html (2149 words)

	Washington Fly Fishing - SFR - Original Lake Washington outlet?
		When she was young she and her family often took the train to Fremont and canoed across Lake Union, Portage Lake and Lake Washington to go camping in the wilds of the east side.
		While accounts differ, it's generally agreed that a connection between Lake Washington and Puget Sound first was proposed at a picnic on July 4, 1854, on the shore of Lake Union by Thomas Mercer, one of Seattle's most famous pioneers.
		And in 1885 a 16-foot-wide canal was dug between Lake Washington and Lake Union.
	www.washingtonflyfishing.com /board/showthread.php?t=22713 (2696 words)

	resources
		Goal : Study estimated to what extent the historical shoreline of Lake Washington has been modified by docks and retaining structures, in order to determine impacts of modifications on endangered populations of chinook salmon, the juveniles use the littoral zone in Lake Washington for rearing and migration to the ocean.
		Goal: The main objective of this study was to inventory and map the above water shoreline habitats and docks along Seattle shorelines throughout Lake Washington, the Ship Canal, and Shilshole Bay in light of the use by juvenile endangered chinook salmon use the littoral zone for rearing and migration to the ocean.
		Juvenile endangered chinook salmon from Lake Sammamish and Lake Washington watersheds use the littoral zone for rearing and migration to Puget Sound and the ocean.
	courses.washington.edu /ecodsgn/structures.htm (1880 words)

	Washington Public Lands
		Banks Lake, part of the Columbia Basin Project, was created by building two rock-faced, earthfill dams at the north and south ends of the Ice-Age channel of the Columbia River, now known as Grand Coulee.
		Billy Clapp Lake is formed by Pinto Dam which is part of the Columbia Basin Project.
		Bumping Lake Dam and Bumping Lake, features of the Yakima Project, are located in the Cascade Mountains east of Mount Rainier National Park about 29 miles northwest of Naches, Washington.
	www.biggamehunt.net /sections/Washington/public_lands (454 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On the Lake Washington Ship Canal, a bridge opening averages about four (4) minutes, from stopping traffic to letting traffic resume at the end of an opening.
		As you transit the ship canal, the bridge operator will drive from bridge to bridge, opening them for you as you arrive.
		This is the only bridge on the ship canal west of the locks.
	students.washington.edu /sailing/telltale/sum2004/bascule.htm (502 words)

	West Point Lighthouse
		West Point is bounded by Elliott Bay to the south and the Lake Washington Ship Canal to the north.
		The fort's grounds were declared surplus in 1964, and much of it was transferred to the city of Seattle in 1972.
		The Lake Washington Ship Canal was completed in 1915.
	www.rudyalicelighthouse.net /NWLts/WestPt/WestPt.htm (391 words)

	Minor Spill in the Lake Washington Ship Canal
		Minor Spill in the Lake Washington Ship Canal
		SEATTLE - The Coast Guard and the Washington State Department of Ecology responded to a minor oil sheen in the Washington Ship Canal today near the Ballard Bridge.
		At approximately 8 p.m., last night, Coast Guard Sector Seattle received a report of a minor oil sheen in the Lake Washington Ship Canal from an observant citizen.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,77416,00.html (375 words)

	DJC.COM: Thursday, December 21, 2006, provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
		Architects and engineers are the visionaries that shape the things we build, their legacy lives in the structures we all still benefit from today.
		Lake Washington Ship Canal sails into the next century as the canal most frequently used by recreational boaters in the country.
		When Homer M. Hadley first presented the idea of a floating concrete bridge spanning Lake Washington, people thought the idea was all wet.
	www.djc.com /special/century (790 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Drawbridge Operation Regulations; Lake Washington Ship Canal, WA
		The draw of the Montlake Bridge, mile 5.2, Lake Washington Ship Canal at Seattle, Washington, opens on signal except that the draw need not open for the passage of vessels from 7 a.m.
		The Montlake Bridge provides 48 feet of vertical clearance above the mean regulated lake level of Lake Washington for the central 100 feet of the bascule span.
		The Lake Washington Ship Canal bisects Seattle from east to west and is currently crossed by two fixed highway bridges and four vehicular bascules, of which the Montlake is the easternmost.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2002/September/Day-30/i24634.htm (1950 words)

	LFP History: Lowering Lake Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The single event that had the most effect on Lake Forest Park's landscape was the lowering of Lake Washington in 1916.
		Lake Washington was lowered as part of the creation of the U.S. Government Locks and the Lake Washington Ship Canal in 1917.
		The Johansen family on their backlot after Lake Washington was lowered.
	www.cityoflfp.com /history/lakelowered.html (88 words)

	Saltwater Intrusion in Salmon Bay and Lake Union Sediments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Depending on the levels of salinity present, sediments in certain areas may be classified as marine, low-salinity, or freshwater.
		To evaluate the appropriate classification, sediment pore water salinity levels in Salmon Bay and Lake Union were determined using conductivity and temperature measurements.
		Saltwater intrudes into Salmon Bay as a result of operation of the Hiram Chittenden Locks, which connect the Lake Washington Ship Canal with Puget Sound.
	www.ecy.wa.gov /biblio/0003032.html (333 words)

	Boat cleaning in Lake Washington Ship Canal leads to penalty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		BELLEVUE - The Port of Seattle faces a $13,000 penalty from the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) for allowing fishing boat operators at Fishermen's Terminal to clean and paint their boats in the water, creating a potential threat to marine life.
		In June, an Ecology inspector observed extensive hull cleaning and painting underway on three different vessels while they were in the water at Fishermen's Terminal on the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
		The port has 15 days from receipt of the penalty to ask Ecology for a reduced fine based on information the agency did not have when the penalty was issued, and 30 days to appeal the penalty to the state Pollution Control Hearings Board.
	www.ecy.wa.gov /news/1999news/99-165.html (358 words)

	row2k News: Seattle Rowing Clubs to pay tribute to fallen Seattle Harbor Patrol officer
		The public is encouraged to join in the tribute by gathering along the Burke-Gillman Trail along the ship canal just west of the Fremont Bridge.
		The accident occurred when Lone and his partner were attempting to secure an old tugboat that had broken free of its mooring and was drifting in the ship canal.
		Lake Washington Rowing Club Vice President Matthew Crouthamel said, "The Seattle rowing community and the Seattle Harbor Patrol have had a close working relationship for many years.
	www.row2k.com /news/news.cfm?ID=16767 (356 words)

	KUOW: PVF: Seattle's Big Ditch
		To help further that aim, and to help transport the timber and coal from east King County, they decided they needed some kind of canal to connect Lake Washington with Puget Sound.
		The Ship Canal opened freshwater moorage to ocean-going vessels, and spurred Seattle's thriving maritime industry.
		In the five-part series Seattle's Big Ditch, reporter Marcie Sillman takes us on an audio tour of the Canal, the people who work in the maritime industry, and the pressures the industry faces as most of the city turns its attentions to the high tech industry.
	www.kuow.org /pvf/pvf_big_ditch.asp (526 words)

	University District, Washington City Tour - City of University District
		The University District is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, so named because the main campus of the University of Washington (UW) is located there.
		They were connected by a well-travelled path along what is now the Lake Washington Ship Canal (1883, 1916).
		One year later much of the land north of the Ship Canal, including Brooklyn, was annexed to Seattle, the UW moved from Downtown in 1893, and the first university building was built in 1895.
	www.realestate-seattle.com /citytour/WA/University-District.php (799 words)

	Congressman Dave Reichert - US House of Representatives
		WASHINGTON, DC Rep. Dave Reichert today issued the following statement in response to House passage of H.R. 2419, the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2006.
		The Lake Washington and Ship Canal are home to several ESA listed salmon species.
		This project will restore habitat for salmon and improve water quality, which will also impact water quality in the Puget Sound which is home to the ESA listed Orca.
	www.house.gov /reichert/press.05/5.25.05.energy.shtml (380 words)

	WDFW - Sockeye Salmon: Viewing Lake Washington Sockeye
		There are a number of opportunities to view sockeye salmon at locations in the Lake Washington Basin.
		The Ballard Locks are located in northwest Seattle near where the Lake Washington Ship Canal enters Shilshole Bay and Puget Sound.
		While sockeye spawners can be observed in many of the larger streams of the basin, the Cedar River provides the spawning grounds for approximately 90% of Lake Washington’s spawning run.
	wdfw.wa.gov /fish/sockeye/viewing.htm (430 words)

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