A Look at Why Lake Sammamish is so High
Dwight | June 29, 2010
The water level on Lake Sammamish is at an all-time high, and the reason might be an overgrowth of vegetation at the outlet. This video gives you a view of what it looks like.
Here is how one family is affected by the high water:
Dwight | June 26, 2010
Dwight | June 26, 2010
The above graph shows that we had some very high winter lake levels this year, but we were trending down to typical seasonal levels. Then Lake levels really spiked in April and June, quickly rising and slowly falling. The blue line is this year, the brown line is an average of the previous four years, which [...]
Lake Sammamish High Water Levels-Unprecedented
Dwight | June 26, 2010
Many docks are underwater, July 4 parties are being canceled, and water levels on Lake Sammamish are more like mid-winter then early summer. Can you trust the recollection of old timers who say ” I have never seen anything like this in all my years”? Yes you can. The United States Geological Survey has daily [...]
Lake Sammamish Island
Dwight | June 18, 2010
It’s not every day that we see an island floating on Lake Sammamish. While kayaking last weekend we spotted this clump of land, complete with grass and a tree, bobbing along the lake. Apparently the unusually high water level saturated a section of the shoreline. Then the wind—which usually comes out of the south—shifted to [...]