Fremont Cut
The Fremont Cut is a
Seattle, Washington, United States, that connects Lake Union to the east with Salmon Bay to the west. It is part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal linking Lake Washington to Puget Sound
, and is 5,800 feet (1,800 m) long and 270 feet (82 m) wide. The center channel is 100 feet (30 m) wide and 30 feet (9.1 m) deep.
History
Work first began on the cut when the Lake Washington Improvement Company contracted in 1883 to dig out Ross Creek which at that time was Lake Union’s fresh water outlet to Salmon Bay. The total amount of material excavated was about 2 million cubic yards. Up until the
Chittenden Locks were completed in 1917, the Fremont Cut’s eastern end near the Fremont Bridge was separated from Lake Union by a low wooden dam, a small wooden lock, and a spillway.[1]
Environs
Named for the neighborhood lying just to the north, the cut is spanned by the
Adobe Systems, Tableau Software and Google
.
References
- ^ Baar, Joe (April 25, 2016), "Making the Cut: The Locks by the Numbers", Inside Passage: The Blog of the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society
