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The lake is formed by damming the Turkey Creek, a tributary of Chambers Creek and the Trinity River. [1] It drains 31 square miles (80 km 2) and is impounded by a 3,500-foot-long (1,100 m) dam 49 feet (15 m) high with a spillway level of 704.1 feet (214.6 m). [2] The water is stained to murky due to sediment. [3]
The creek is dammed just upstream from the mill to provide water for the now-defunct mill, which began to be demolished in 2011 after the land was purchased by Tim Ralston. [ 4 ] Much of the lower reaches of Chambers Creek is part of the Chambers Creek Properties, a series of recreational sites owned and operated by Pierce County .
The reservoir was created in 1853 when Andrew Byrd built a dam across Chambers Creek, flooding what had previously been a small pond in a wetland. The dam was used for his sawmill (also built in 1853) and a grist mill (100 yards downstream, in 1857). A public boat launch can be found on the eastern shore in Edgewater Park.
Chambers Creek may refer to: Chambers Creek (Tennessee River tributary), a stream in Tennessee; Chambers Creek (Richland Creek tributary), a stream in Texas;
Richland-Chambers Reservoir is the third largest inland reservoir by surface area and the 8th largest reservoir by water volume in Texas formed by the impoundment of Richland Creek and Chambers Creek east-southeast of the town of Corsicana and south of Kerens, in Navarro County and Freestone County, Texas, USA. It has 330 miles (530 km) of ...
Map of the Denny-Blaine-Lake Park Addition (including depiction of the seawall and stairs at Denny Blaine Park) from the original plat filed by Charles L. and Viretta Denny on April 15, 1901. Denny Blaine Park (as it is now named) was created on April 15, 1901 when the plat for the Denny-Blaine-Lake Park Addition was filed with the city of ...
Quassaick Creek (Quassaic Creek on federal maps; [2] also once known as Chambers Creek [3]) is an 18.4-mile-long (29.6 km) [4] tributary of the Hudson River in Orange and Ulster counties in the U.S. state of New York. It rises in the glacial ridges west of the river, near the boundary between the towns of Plattekill and Marlborough.
Chambers Island, named in honor of Col. Talbot Chambers, is a 2,834 acre (4.428 sq. mi.) island in Green Bay, about 7 miles (11 km) off the coast of the Door Peninsula, near Gibraltar, Wisconsin. It is part of the Town of Gibraltar in Door County .