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via a tunnel through Mission Mountain, which separates the Seton and Bridge drainages. Several ranches and homesteads in the broad serpentine of the upper Bridge River basin were flooded out by the hydro project, which changed the character of the upper valley forever.
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The lake is named after a Mr. Carpenter, an engineer who first moved to Canada in 1909 and performed much of the early design work on the power project for the firm of Sanderson and Porter, and supervised construction of the first tunnels through
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are usually mudflat due to fluctuations in the level of the reservoir. Its total area approaches 50 square kilometres.
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Carpenter Lake is about 50 kilometres in length, although its upper reaches beyond the flooded gold mining town of
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is about 185 kilometres north of the province's major city of
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Carpenter Lake is located in British Columbia
British Columbia
50°51′N 122°30′W / 50.850°N 122.500°W / 50.850; -122.500
Type
reservoir
Primary inflows
Bridge River
Primary outflows
Seton Lake
Bridge River
Basin
reservoirs
Bridge River Power Project
Lillooet, British Columbia
lake

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