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Below the 30 km length of Lillooet Lake , it resumes again just north of the native community at Skatin , or Skookumchuck Hot Springs. The lower stretch of the Lillooet River, from Lillooet Lake to Harrison Lake , is approximately 55 km (c. 34 mi) in length. Its main tributaries are the Meager Creek, the Ryan River, the Green River , and the Birkenhead River . Below Harrison Lake , the stream is renamed as the Harrison River , which enters the Fraser near the native community of Chehalis . The lower Lillooet River and Lillooet Lake were part of a briefly-lived main route between the Coast and the Interior in the days of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush . See the Douglas Road . ERUPTION OF MOUNT MEAGER, 2350 BP The Lillooet River was Dam med with Breccia from a Plinian style eruption that was erupted from Mount Meager 2350 BP . The breccia damming the Lillooet River was not very strong, then the water soon eroded the breccia that was damming the river, forming Keyhole Falls . There was a massive Flood when the water first broke through the breccia. The flood was big enough that small House sized blocks of breccia were carried away during the flood. |
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