Lake Youngs | reservoir

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This is a storage facility that is part of the Cedar River Pipeline, where the city of Seattle gets their water. It is impossible to see the lake itself unless you are a worker at the watershed.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Youngs
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Coordinates:   47°25'3"N   122°7'22"W

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  • Actually you can see a very small portion of the lake. You must use the South East entrance of the trail from SE 224th St, just east of 159th Ave SE. Go about a quarter mile down the trail, and when you get to the corner, look to your right towards theNE direction and you can see a small portion of the lake down the service road. Nothing fancy, just water, gravel and trees.
  • The water actually comes from here: http://wikimapia.org/11919930/Cedar-River-Watershed
  • How does the Cedar River get water to the reservoir like they claim it does when the nearestpart of the C/R is at least 200' lower than the reservoir? Does one of the cr's dams(SPU?) drive a water pump up to the lake in the same way Grand Coulee Dam lifts a portion of h2o from FDR Lake to Banks Lake(for irrigation)280 above? I read that L/Y treats c/r h2o for drinking. I also read l/y was formed out of Swan Lake by making 2 dams. Were there 2 outflows? The only info I could get was a map that showed an outflow w/out a dam(Little Soos Creek)as well as a Dam(Cascade Dam) w/out an outflow. LSC must be too small to be the stream that ly is an impounded version of, but what happened to whatever flowed out through Cascade Dam. What was the stream's name?
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