The 45_mile_long Cedar River is located in central western Washington. It starts in the Cascade Mountains, and since 1912 has emptied into Lake Washington at Renton. (It had previously emptied into the Black River, but was diverted in hopes of avoiding another flood like the one that took place in 1911.) It flows generally east to west.
It is in the Cedar River watershed, a part of the larger Puget Sound watershed.
Part of it is run by the Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) department as the Tolt River Watershed. It supplies 70% of the drinking water used by the 1.3 million inhabitants in Seattle and the other neighboring communities SPU serves.
External links
SPU Cedar River Watershed site (http://www.cityofseattle.net/util/cedarwatershed/)
Renton's Cedar Rivers Park (http://www.ci.renton.wa.us/commserv/parks/cedriver.htm)
The Coosa River Basin is one of the rainiest places in the US, with the average precipitation rate ranging from 52 to 64 inches per year.
The French believed that the Coosa River was a key gateway to the entire South and they earnestly wanted to control the valley, since the main transportation of the day was by boat.
The first river town to form in the Coosa Basin settled at the foot of the last water falls on the Coosa River, the Devils Staircase, with the town name Wetumpka (or "falling stream") adopted shortly thereafter.
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