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Archive Home > 2011 > January > 23 > If returned to a river...

If returned to a river...

Mirror Pond: One idea to clean up the Bend icon: remove the dam that created it, returning the river to its past. What might happen?

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
January 23, 2011

For a century, Mirror Pond has been a focal point of Bend and the backdrop to images of the city.

It isn't a natural part of the city. Mirror Pond is man-made, formed in 1913 with the construction of a hydroelectric dam near the Newport Avenue bridge.

And the slow water flowing by Drake Park....

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