Spokane River

Catchment area of ​​the Spokane River

Upper Spokane Falls

Long Lake Dam on the Spokane River

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The Spokane River is a left tributary of the Columbia River, about 180 km long, in northern Idaho and eastern Washington in the United States. It drains a medium- high mountains east of the Columbia River and then flows through the city of Spokane.

River

The Spokane River forms the outlet of Coeur d' Alene Lake at its north end in the Idaho Panhandle and reached for a flow distance of about 180 kilometers from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake.

Below the Coeur d'Alene Lake, the river crosses the Rathdrum Prairie. He reached in Post Falls, where he passes a dam and a 13 m high waterfall. It flows in a westerly direction. Located along the river five more dams, four of them within the City of Spokane. In the center of Spokane he overcomes the Spokane Falls. He then takes on the tributaries of Latah Creek and Little Spokane River. Further downstream, the Spokane River is the Long Lake, a 24 km long reservoir, dammed. East of Miles he finally empties into the Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake. The historic Fort Spokane is located at the confluence with the Columbia River.

Pollution

The Spokane River is heavily polluted with heavy metals, which are derived from the Bunker Hill Mine and Smelting Complex and travel through the Coeur d' Alene River and Coeur d' Alene Lake into the river.

The sewage from Spokane derive their water in the Spokane River.