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The wooden flume has a cross section of 8 by 8 feet (2.4 by 2.4 m) and can supply up to 400 cubic feet (11 m 3) of water per second to the turbines of the Electron powerhouse. [2] Original construction took approximately 14 months to complete. The grade is uniform and runs at seven feet of elevation per mile.
The Edith Creek Chlorination House is a historic structure in Mount Rainier National Park, built by the National Park Service in 1930. The rustic structure was built as part of the water supply system to the Paradise area. The low concrete building with stone veneer cladding was built to withstand very heavy snow loads.
At Auburn, the Green River emerges from the Green River Valley and enters the much larger Auburn/Kent Valley, which was created by glacial action during the Pleistocene ice ages, then filled in by river sediments and lahars from Mount Rainier. After flowing generally west from its source, at Auburn the river turns north, entering a zone of ...
Tacoma and South Seattle are built on 100-foot-thick (30.5-meter) ancient mudflows from eruptions of Mount Rainier,” Jess Phoenix, a volcanologist and ambassador for the Union of Concerned ...
Mount Rainier is the tallest mountain in Washington and the Cascade Range. This peak is located southeast of Tacoma, approximately 60 miles (97 km) south-southeast of Seattle. [26] [27] Mount Rainier has a topographic prominence of 13,210 ft (4,026 m). [2]
Kautz Creek is a tributary of the Nisqually River, flowing from the Kautz Glacier, with its watershed in the Mount Rainier National Park of Washington.It drains southwest from Mount Rainier for about 6 miles (9.7 km) before it joins the Nisqually River near Mount Rainier Highway.
View of Mount Rainier from The Post at Tehaleh. Tehaleh, [1] formerly known as Cascadia, is a master-planned unincorporated community to the south of Bonney Lake in Pierce County, Washington, United States. Construction began in 2005 with an estimated timeline for completion of 20 years. [2]
The total mass of glacier ice on Mount Rainier, southeast of Seattle, is less than half what it was in 1896, ... Mountain glaciers are a water source for nearly 2 billion people.