Banks Lake
Banks Lake is a 27-mile-long reservoir in central Washington in the United States. Part of the Columbia Basin Project, Banks Lake occupies the northern portion of the Grand Coulee, a formerly dry coulee near the Columbia River, formed by the Missoula Floods during the Pleistocene epoch. Grand Coulee Dam, built by the United States Bureau of Reclamation on the Columbia River created Franklin D.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Reservoir
- Description: reservoir in Washington, United States
- Also known as: “Equalizing Reservoir” and “Grand Coulee Equalizing Reservoir”
Banks Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Grant, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Russian—“Banks Lake” goes by many names.
- French: “lac Banks”
- French: “Lac Banks”
- German: “Banks Lake”
- Italian: “lago Banks”
- Japanese: “バンクス湖”
- Russian: “Банкс”
- “Banks”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Banks Lake Wildlife Recreation Area and Higginbotham Reservoir Dam.
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