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.
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Williamborg, Public domain.- Reservoir
- …has a surface elevation of 1,575 feet (480 metres)
- Description: reservoir in Washington, United States
- Also known as“Equalizing Reservoir”“Grand Coulee Equalizing Reservoir”
- Category: body of water
- Location
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Latitude
47.80584° or 47° 48′ 21″ north
Longitude
-119.19191° or 119° 11′ 31″ west
Open location code
85V2RR45+86
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