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line along the original shoreline of Union Bay past the UW power plant and University Village. Construction was completed in 2006 on a project that reconnects partially daylighted Ravenna Creek to Union Bay by piping it underground to the canal, thus converting the upper reach from a relatively
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The UBNA is owned by the State of Washington and held under the aegis of the University of Washington; access is controlled. Parts of the Area are open during park hours, access to other portions is discouraged, some portions seasonally, for habitat or species protection.
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Sources for this atlas and the neighborhood names used in it include a 1980 neighborhood map produced by the Department of Community Development (relocated to the
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baseball grandstand (northeast of the IMA Building). The Drainage Canal that carries Ravenna Creek past UBNA to Union Bay is locally sometimes called University
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flowed into marshland north of where the canal now begins, and the land through which the canal would be cut lay under the waters of Union Bay. The
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from southeast Ravenna Park to the UW and the UBNA has been blocked by the owners of University Village
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The UW identifies the body, entirely on its campus, as Drainage Canal since 1970 or earlier.
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from 1911 to 1966. It was fully closed five years later and overlaid with two feet of clean
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Many restoration projects take place at UBNA. Removal of invasive species, such as
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stagnant drainage to the outlet for one of Seattle's partially restored urban
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called Union Bay Marsh that had been drained by the opening of the
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and IMA Sports Field 1, south to the bay, ending southeast of the
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Restored remainder of the former Union Bay and Union Bay Marsh
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Map showing the location of Union Bay Natural Area
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47°39′21″N 122°17′38″W / 47.65583°N 122.29389°W / 47.65583; -122.29389
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Montlake Cut
Lake Washington Ship Canal

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