Cedar_River_(Washington) Cedar_River_(Washington)

Cedar River (Washington) - Definition and Overview
River Name: Cedar River
State: Washington
County: King
Main tributary: None
Tributary of: None
Artificial lake(s): Chester Morse Lake (formerly Cedar Lake)
Local watershed: Cedar river
Greater watershed: Puget Sound
Cities it flows through: Maple Valley, Washington, Renton, Washington
Get USGS maps (http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form)
Some data, credit: U. S. Geological Survey


The 45-mile-long Cedar River is located in central western Washington. It starts in the Cascade Mountains, and since 1912 has emptied into Lake Washington at Renton. (It had previously emptied into the Black River, but was diverted in hopes of avoiding another flood like the one that took place in 1911.) It flows generally east to west.

It is in the Cedar River watershed, a part of the larger Puget Sound watershed.

Part of it is run by the Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) department as the Tolt River Watershed. It supplies 70% of the drinking water used by the 1.3 million inhabitants in Seattle and the other neighboring communities SPU serves.

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