Baxter Creek Watershed Alliance
Our Vision... People living and working in Cavan-Monaghan and the Baxter Creek area, caring for a clean and healthy watershed.
A "Watershed": What is it?
A watershed (also named catchment or drainage basin) is the area of land which water falls that all drains to one common source (in Baxter Creek's case, the Otonabee River). Rainfall and snowfall accumulates travelling down creeks, streams and rivers to larger bodies of waters such as lakes, and bays in Ontario (NOAA, 2021).
NOAA. What is a watershed? National Ocean Service website, https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/watershed.html , 02/26/21.
Anatomy of the Baxter Creek Watershed
Anatomy of the Baxter Creek Watershed including floodplain, headwaters, tributaries and the connection to the Otonabee River.
A Map Tour
From Lakefield down to Millbrook...
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Otonabee River
Flows from Lakefield through Peterborough, ON
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Baxter Creek
A stream originating on the Oak Ridge Moraine and leads to the Otonabee River
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Millbrook, ON
BCWA is located in the Village of Millbrook nestled along the Baxter Creek
A Watershed's Foundation: Hydrology
An interactive look into the water courses and waterbodies that feed Baxter Creek Watershed
Hydrology within Baxter Creek - zoom in and explore the area! Click on rivers, streams & bodies of water to learn more.
Autumnal Millbrook with aerial shots of the Baxter Creek in Millbrook, ON
Otonabee Drainage Basin
The Otonabee Drainage covers 806 square kilometres, which is part of the Lake Ontario Watershed, within the Great Lakes Watershed nested in the Atlantic Ocean Watershed!
Baxter Creek is a subwatershed of the Otonabee River Basin, found in the southwest area between Squirrel Creek and Cavan Creek.
BCWA's Timeline: To be Continued
2021
Baxter Creek Watershed was born
2022
BCWA Hub is implemented
2023 - Beyond
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