Over 24 hours, a creek pirated nearly all the water in Harry Potter Lake on Alaska's North Slope. Drained lake basins are all over the Arctic coastal plain, but rarely do people get to witness lakes' disappearance, writes science columnist Ned Rozell.
Harry Potter Lake, at the top of this photo, as it looked four years ago, perched 10 feet above and 30 feet away from the creek that in 2022 received most of its water.
Arp and other scientists were monitoring the lake because it’s in an area oil companies are considering for development. The lake was large enough that while standing on one side of the water-filled oval in that flat, buggy landscape, you could not see the far shore. “By late June that water had begun to cut a major niche, which increased the flow and caused it to erode even faster,” Arp said from Deadhorse after returning from the lake basin in mid-August. “We realized then it was going to go soon.”
Judy Kayaak Creek pirated almost the entire volume of Harry Potter Lake in about 24 hours. The creek raged with 100 times its normal volume during the peak flow. Harry Potter Lake, at the top of this drone photo, after most of its water drained into a nearby creek on Alaska’s North Slope in early July 2022.
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