Moses Lake is a lake and reservoir along the course of Crab Creek, in Washington state, USA. Grant County is a county located in the state of Washington. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... For other uses, see Lake (disambiguation). ... ... Crab Creek in the Drumheller Channels. ... The PotHoles Reservoir is part of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project. ... A drainage basin is the area within the drainage basin divide (blue outline), and drains the surface runoff and river discharge (green lines) of a contiguous area. ... For other uses, see Lake (disambiguation). ... ... Crab Creek in the Drumheller Channels. ... For the capital city of the United States, see Washington, D.C.. For other uses, see Washington (disambiguation). ...

Moses Lake is part of the Columbia River basin, as Crab Creek is a tributary of the Columbia River. The Columbia River (French: fleuve Columbia) is a river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. ...

Although originally a shallow natural lake, Moses Lake was dammed in the early 1900s for irrigation purposes. It then became part of the Columbia Basin Project, built and managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. Moses Lake receives water from Crab Creek, as well as from irrigated agricultural runoff. Its water used to flow out into Crab Creek, but now flows into Potholes Reservoir, a storage reservoir created by the impounding Crab Creek at O'Sullivan Dam. The Columbia Basin Irrigation Project The Columbia Basin Project is an irrigation project in Central Washington, USA. It provides water for over 600,000 acres (2,400 km²) of agriculture. ... The United States Bureau of Reclamation (Formerly the United States Reclamation Service) is a division of the U.S. Department of the Interior which oversees water development projects in the western United States. ... The PotHoles Reservoir is part of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project. ... OSullivan Dam, one of the larger earthfill dams in the United States (200 ft/61 m high; 19,000 ft/5,791 m long; completed 1949), is on Crab Creek in Washington state about 20 miles south of Ephrata and 15 miles south of Moses Lake. ...

Moses Lake is fairly complex in shape, with several arms, called "horns". These horns include Lewis Horn, Parker Horn, and Pelican Horn. There are several islands in Moses Lake, including Crest Island, Marsh Island, Gaileys Island, and Goat Island.

Moses Lake was named after Chief Moses in the late 1800s. The city of Moses Lake was, in turn, named after the lake.^[1] Chief Moses Chief Moses (born Kwiltalahun, later called Sulk-stalk-scosum - The Sun Chief) (c. ... Moses Lake is a city in Grant County, Washington, United States. ...

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