Fremont Cut
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The Fremont Cut is a body of water that forms part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal ; this crosses the city of Seattle in the US state of Washington and connects Lake Washington with the Puget Sound . The Fremont Cut connects Lake Union in the east with Salmon Bay in the west. It is about 5,800 feet (about 1,800 m) long and 270 feet (about 80 m) wide. The central canal is 100 ft (30 m) wide and 30 ft (9.1 m) deep.
history
Work began when the Lake Washington Improvement Company was commissioned in 1883 to expand Ross Creek, which at the time was the freshwater drainage from Lake Union into Salmon Bay. The total amount of material excavated was around 1.5 million m³. Until the completion of the Chittenden Locks , the lock system on the canal, the east end of the Fremont Cut near the Fremont Bridge was separated from Lake Union by a wooden dam, a small wooden lock and a flood overflow.
Surroundings
The Cut is named after the district immediately to the north; it is spanned by the Fremont Bridge, a bascule bridge ( drawbridge ) that connects the districts of Fremont in the north and Queen Anne in the south on Fremont Avenue North . South of the cut is the 456 ft (139 m) high Queen Anne Hill, while to the east is the Aurora Bridge (officially the George Washington Memorial Bridge ), a cantilevered truss construction, which the old US Highway 99 ("Pacific Highway") ) across the west of Lake Union. Several high-tech companies settled just north of the Cut in the Fremont neighborhood: Adobe Inc. , Tableau Software, and Google are some of the more notable.
Start: 47 ° 38 ′ 50 ″ N , 122 ° 20 ′ 56 ″ W , End: 47 ° 39 ′ 59 ″ N , 122 ° 24 ′ 2 ″ W.
Individual evidence
- ^ Making the Cut: The Locks by the Numbers. Inside Passage: Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society Blog, Monday, April 25, 2016. Retrieved May 30, 2018
