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Tolt River - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Beck, Branch, Brook, Burn, Cascade, Cataract, Channel, Creek, Crick, Deluge, Estuary, Flood, Flow, Gill, Kill |
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| River Name:
| Tolt River
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| State:
| Washington
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| County:
| King
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| Main tributary:
| None
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| Tributary of:
| Snoqualmie River
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| Artificial lake(s):
| Tolt Reservoir
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| Local watershed:
| Tolt river
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| Greater watershed:
| Puget Sound
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| Cities it flows through:
| Carnation, Washington
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| Get USGS maps (http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form)
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| Some data, credit: U. S. Geological Survey
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The Tolt River is a river which starts by draining the foothills of the west side of the Cascade Mountains in north central King County, Washington. It flows westerly joining the Snoqualmie River at Carnation, Washington.
The Tolt River watershed is a part of the larger Puget Sound watershed.
Part of the Tolt River Watershed is run by the Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) department. The reservoir on the South Fork of the Tolt River supplies 30% of the drinking water used by the 1.3 million inhabitants in Seattle and the other neighboring communities that SPU serves.
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