Lake Lenore (Washington)
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| Geographical location | Grant County , Washington (USA) | |
| Tributaries | across Alkali Lake from Blue Lake and Park Lake | |
| Drain | to the West Canal of the Columbia Basin Project (runs from Pinto Dam to Crab Creek ) | |
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 30 ′ N , 119 ° 31 ′ W | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 328 m | |
| surface | 6.8 km² | |
| length | 13 km | |
| volume | 24,100,000 m³ | |
| scope | 23.2 km | |
| Maximum depth | 8.2 m | |
| Middle deep | 4.6 m | |
The Lake Lenore (also "Lenore Lake") is located in Grant County in the State of Washington . It is a 1,670 acres (676 hectare) lake formed by the Missoula Floods in the Lower Coulee just north of the small town of Soap Lake . It is located between Alkali Lake in the north and Soap Lake in the south. The lake is rather narrow, but elongated. The lake reaches its greater length in a north-south direction along Washington State Route 17 , which runs from Soap Lake to Coulee City . The catchment area of the lake covers 950 km².
Lenore Canyon is a coulee associated with the development of the Channeled Scablands .
Lenore Caves
One of the most interesting areas around the lake are the Lenore Caves (English "cave" = cave). Located at the northern end of Lake Lenore, they consist of a series of overhangs along the cliffs on the lake. They are part of one of the largest volcanic regions on earth.
The Lenore Caves were created by splintering glacial erosion on the basalt of the canyon by the fast flowing meltwater and are geologically different from most caverns. They were used as shelter by prehistoric people.
On Washington State Route 17 along Lake Lenore, there is an exit to a parking lot at the beginning of a hiking trail. There is an information board about the caves and the general history of the area. There are seven caves accessible by well-maintained pathways dotted along the east face of Grand Coulee across from Lake Lenore.
history
On January 13, 1947, the US War Assets Administration , a facility for handling the military equipment and equipment remaining from the Second World War, sank barrels of sodium in Lake Lenore.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Victor Baker: Channeled Scablands: A Megaflood Landscape, in Geomorphological Landscapes of the World . Springer, 2010, ISBN 9789048130542 , pp. 21-28.
- ^ Newsreel from January 13, 1947 on YouTube
