part of the same project the Montlake Cut wa dug between Lake Washington and the former salt chuck, lowering the level of the former and raising the latter. Portage Bay is called Portage Bay because that’s where you used to have to portage your boat over land to the lake. Operations of the locks was expected to use more water then the Samammish River could provide during the summer, so they diverted the Cedar River into the south end of the lake and killed the Black River, which used to be Lake Washington’s outlet.

You are confusing Lake Union with Salmon Bay, which was a tide influenced salt chuck inlet. The little stream from Lake Union west past Fremont and Ross to Salmon Bay, much later expanded to theand races, social classes, genders, sexual identities, religions and more. Some of the accompanying pictures were disturbing. Some members of the community flagged these posts as offensive, others cheered them on.

And some people posted deeply offensive and distressing pictures of sexual behavior or violent acts. The terms of service of the app prohibited this, but it happened anyway. Some members of the community flagged these posts as offensive, others cheered them on.

Because of this last category of post, Frank Warren and his family were threatened, harassed and subject to scrutiny from various government agencies.

The app was pulled. What could have been a boon to thousands was abused by a few and had to be discontinued to keep Frank and his family safe.

Since then, Frank has received complaints from