Bitter Lake (Washington)
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| Aerial view of Bitter Lake in the Seattle neighborhood of the same name | ||
| Geographical location | Seattle , Washington (USA) | |
| Drain | piped to Lake Union | |
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 43 '36 " N , 122 ° 21' 8" W | |
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| surface | 7.4 hectares (18.4 acres ) | |
| Maximum depth | 31 ft (9.4 m) | |
| Middle deep | 16 ft (4.9 m) | |
The Bitter Lake is a small lake in the northwest of Seattle in the State of Washington .
The lake has an area of 18.4 acres (7.4 hectares), an average depth of 16 ft (5 m) and a maximum depth of 31 ft (9 m). Until 1913 there was a sawmill on the south-western bank . Tannic acids from the wood got into the lake and gave the water a bitter taste and thus the name of the lake itself. The Duwamish called the lake "Raspberries on the Shore" ( Lushootseed : cHálqWadee), which referred to the occurrence of Oregon raspberries on the shores.
It is a glacial lake , the basin of which was created about 15,000 years ago by the Puget Lobe of the Cordilleras Ice Sheet , which also left Lake Washington , Lake Union , Green Lake, and Haller Lake .
The Seattle- Everett interurban tram reached the lake in 1906, and what is now Bitter Lake was annexed to Seattle in 1954.
The lake is between Greenwood Avenue North in the west, Linden Avenue North on the east, North 137 th Street in the North and North 130 th Street in the south. Bitter Lake eventually drains into Lake Union through a cased drain on its southeastern shore .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d City of Seattle: State of the Waters 2007 . P. 25.
- ^ Coll Thrush: Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place . University of Washington Press, 2007, ISBN 0-295-98700-6 , p. 220.
- ↑ City of Seattle: State of the Waters 2007 . P. 27.