Bitter Lake (Seattle)

Bitter Lake is a small lake in northwest Seattle, Washington, USA.

The lake covers 19 acres (77,000 m²), with a mean depth of 16 feet (5 m) and a maximum depth of 31 feet (9 m). Until 1913, a sawmill was located at its southwest corner. Tannic acid from logs dumped into the lake gave its water a bitter taste and the lake itself a name. The Duwamish called the lake "Blackcaps on the Sides" (Lushootseed: cHálqWadee), denoting the blackcap (Rubus leucodermis) plants that grew along the shores.

It is a glacial lake, its basin having been dug 15,000 years ago by the Puget Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which also created Lake Washington, Union, Green and Haller Lakes.

The Seattle-to-Everett Interurban streetcar reached the lake in 1906, and the Bitter Lake neighborhood was annexed by Seattle in 1954.

The lake is situated between Greenwood Avenue North to the west, Linden Avenue North to the east, North 137th Street to the north, and North 130th Street to the south. Bitter Lake drains through a piped outlet at its southeast end that eventually flows into Lake Union.

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Bitter Lake (Ontario)

Bitter Lake is a lake in the Trent River and Lake Ontario drainage basins located in the municipality of Dysart et al, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada, about 15 kilometres (9 mi) northwest of the community of Haliburton.

The lake is 1.7 kilometres (1.1 mi) long and 0.6 kilometres (0.4 mi) wide and lies at an elevation of 413 metres (1,355 ft). There are no significant inflows. The primary outflow is an unnamed creek that flows through Tedious Lake to the Redstone River, a tributary of the Gull River.

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