List of lakes in Washington
This is a list of natural lakes and reservoirs located fully or partially in the U.S. state of Washington. Natural lakes that have been altered with a dam, such as Lake Chelan, are included as lakes, not reservoirs.
Natural lakes
Currently included in this table are all natural and enhanced lakes with a surface area of more than 1,000 acres or a volume of more than 25,000 acre feet as well as smaller lakes (down to 100 acres) with a Wikipedia page.
Reservoirs
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See also
- List of dams in the Columbia River watershed
- List of dams and reservoirs in the United States#Washington
Notes
- ↑ Enhanced with a dam in 1927.
- ↑ Excluding Lake Union and connected waters.
- ↑ Largest unaltered lake in Washington State
- ↑ Enhanced with dams in the early 1900s, 1928 and 1941 for irrigation purposes.
- ↑ The Zosel Dam, when built in 1927, unintentionally influenced and now regulates Osoyoos Lake levels.
- ↑ Most voluminous unaltered lake in Washington State
- ↑ Enhanced with dams in 1937.
- ↑ Enhanced with a dam in 1933 for irrigation purposes. Active capacity is 437,000 acre feet.
- ↑ Enhanced with a dam in 1912 for irrigation purposes. Active capacity is 239,000 acre feet.
- ↑ Saline lake.
- ↑ Enhanced with a dam in 1917 for irrigation purposes. Active capacity is 158,000 acre feet.
- ↑ The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens relocated the lake 300 feet higher. A drainage tunnel was built to prevent a catastrophic breach of the new natural dam.
- ↑ Natural lake that was diked in 1911. With islands the surface area is about 2,800 acres.
- ↑ Natural lake, but dammed to prevent flooding.
- ↑ Largest natural lake in South East Washington.
- ↑ North and South Twin Lakes combined. Used as a reservoir for irrigation purposes since 1930.
- ↑ Before it was expanded with the Masonry Dam in 1911, this lake was known as "Cedar Lake".
- ↑ Surface area and volume exclude the 150 acre Portage Bay as well as the Fremont Cut and Salmon Bay.
- ↑ Natural reservoir
- ↑ Tidal flats and estuary dammed in 1951. Reduced from an original 320 acres surface area by sedimentation.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Bortleson, G.C., Dion, N.P., McConnell, J.B., and Nelson, L.M. Reconnaissance data on lakes in Washington, State of Washington, Department of Ecology Water-Supply Bulletin, No. 43, v. 1-7, 1976
- ↑ Morphometry of Lake Chelan at the Washington Dept. of Ecology website
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife website
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 Bahls, Kindberg, Wait & Glasgow An assessment of error in state shoreline designation for lakes of Washington, 2006
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Lakes in Washington at lakelubbers.com
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 Lakes in Washington at Northwest Fishing Report
- ↑ Osoyoos Lake at the Washington Dept. of Ecology website
- ↑ Ron Judd, Our deep lakes incite curiosity and conjure legends, Seattle Times, August 8, 2014
- ↑ Cle Elum Dam at the Bureau of Reclamation website.
- ↑ Keechelus Dam at the Bureau of Reclamation website.
- 1 2 Lucas and Weinheimer, Recovery of Fish Populations in Lakes Affected by the May 18, 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Conflicting surface area data resolved with area calculator
- ↑ Palmer Lake at the Washington Dept. of Ecology website
- ↑ Number represents usable storage (between 515 and 543 ft elveation); dead storage (and therefore volume) between 455 and 515 feet is unknown.
- ↑ Wells & Wells, Water Quality and Fish-bioenergetics Model of Chester Morse Lake and the Cedar River, 2012
- ↑ Lenore Lake at the Washington Dept. of Ecology website
- ↑ Owhi Lake at the Washington State University "Lakes of the Colville Reservation" website
- ↑ Curlew Lake at the Washington Dept. of Ecology website
- ↑ Mason Lake at the Washington Dept. of Ecology website
- ↑ Lake Samish at the Washington Dept. of Ecology website
- ↑ Summit Lake at the Washington Dept. of Ecology website
- ↑ Lake Union at kingcounty.gov
- ↑ Packwood Lake Drawdown Study Report, 2007 (Table 4.1)
- ↑ Lake Sutherland at the Washington Dept. of Ecology website
- ↑ Walupt Lake at the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife website.
- ↑ Long Lake at the Washington Dept. of Ecology website
- ↑ Nahwatzel Lake at the Washington Dept. of Ecology website
- ↑ Dorothy Lake at the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife website.
- ↑ Chopaka Lake at the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife website.
- 1 2 Deepest alpine lakes in Washington at nwhikers.net
- ↑ North Cascades National Park (N.P.), Mountain Lakes Fishery Management Plan, 2008 (p. 151)
- ↑ Blanca Lake at the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife website.
- ↑ Snow Lake at the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife website.
- ↑ Chopaka Lake at the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife website.
- ↑ Snoqualmie Lake at the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife website.
- ↑ Berdeen Lake at the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife website.
- ↑
- ↑ "Geography and Community". Retrieved 2014-04-10.
- ↑ "Franklin D Roosevelt Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 1992-12-31. Retrieved 2014-04-10.
- ↑ "Grand Coulee Dam Statistics and Facts" (PDF). USBR. 2012. Retrieved 2014-10-31.
- 1 2 3 "Reservoirs in the United States" (PDF). United States Geological Survey. 1966. Retrieved 2014-04-10.
- ↑ "Lake Umatilla". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 1979-09-10. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ↑ "Riffe Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 1990-07-01. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ↑ "Cowlitz River Basin" (PDF). United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ↑ "Alder Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 1979-09-10. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
- ↑ "Ross Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 1979-09-10. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ↑ "Lake Wallula". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 1979-09-10. Retrieved 2014-04-10.
- ↑ "Banks Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 1979-09-10. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ↑ "The Story of the Columbia Basin Project". National Park Service. 2008-02-01. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ↑ "Warmwater Fishing Opportunitues in Central Washington 2014-15" (PDF). Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ↑ "Banks Lake Fish Survey, September 2000" (PDF). Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. July 2004. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ↑ "Swift Reservoir". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 1979-09-10. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
- ↑ "Reservoirs in the United States" (PDF). United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ "Swift Reservoir". Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
- ↑ "Wanapum Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 1979-09-10. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ↑ "Reservoirs of the United States" (PDF). USBR. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ "Assessing Native and Introduced Fish Predation on Migrating Juvenile Salmon" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey. 2012-11-30. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ↑ "Rufus Woods Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 1992-12-31. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
- ↑ "Sediment Quality Assessment of Lake Rufus Woods and Chief Joseph Dam, 2004" (PDF). US Army Corps of Engineers. June 2009. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
- ↑ "Reservoirs of the United States" (PDF). USBR. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ "Lake Herbert G. West". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 1992-12-31. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ↑ "Lower Monumental Lock and Dam". US Army Corps of Engineers. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ↑ "Merwin Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 1979-09-10. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
- ↑ "Merwin Lake -- Clark County: 1995". State of Washington Department of Ecology. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
- ↑ "Lake Merwin". Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. 2014. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
- ↑ "Yale Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 1979-09-10. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
- ↑ "Reservoirs in the United States" (PDF). United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ "Banks Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 1979-09-10. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ↑ "O'Sullivan Dam Details". USBR. 2012-05-17. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ↑ "Columbia Basin Project Details". USBR. 2013-12-04. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
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