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Chester Morse Lake (originally Cedar Lake) is a lake in the upper region of the Cedar River watershed in the U.S. state of Washington.The original lake surface was 1,530 feet (466 m) above sea level, but when the river was dammed in 1900, the elevation was raised to 1,560 feet (475 m).
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Chester Morse Lake: King: 1,562 1,830 94,000 130 ... Lake Creek Columbia / Cowlitz
Lake Cushman: Arch 43.2: 235 72 453,400 559,300 1926 Tacoma Power: Hydroelectric Cushman Dam No. 2: Mason: North Fork Skokomish River: Lake Kokanee: Arch 81.0: 175 53 8,000 9,900 1930 Tacoma Power: Hydroelectric Diablo Dam: Whatcom: Skagit River: Diablo Lake: Arch 129.0: 389 119 88,500 109,200 1930 Seattle City Light: Hydroelectric Dry Falls ...
It is impounded in Chester Morse Lake, a natural lake that was dammed in 1900 for use as a water storage reservoir. The Rex River joins the Cedar in Chester Morse Lake, as do the two forks of the Cedar River, the north and south forks. [5] Below Chester Morse Lake, the Cedar River flows through a smaller lake called Masonry Pool.
The nearly 8100 major dams in the United States in 2006. The National Inventory of Dams defines a major dam as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
The flood, rising, 1915. The town of Moncton existed in 1906–1915 around the northern edge of Rattlesnake Lake. In the spring of 1915, it was destroyed by flooding caused by seepage of water from the newly created Chester Morse Lake into Rattlesnake Lake, and later condemned.
City engineer Reginald H. Thomson added a sawmill at the lake mouth to provide milled lumber for the dam and other components, cutting about 2,000,000 board feet of lumber. [4] When the natural level of Cedar Lake was raised 18 feet in 1903, it created a reservoir, and a secondary reservoir, Masonry Pool, was formed when the masonry dam was ...
Mount Washington as seen from the middle fork of the Snoqualmie River near North Bend. Mount Washington is a small mountain in the US state of Washington roughly 30 miles (48 km) east-southeast of Seattle, Washington along Interstate 90.