Cobbs Lake Creek is a creek in
Prescott and Russell County in
eastern Ontario, Canada,
which empties into the
South Nation River
The South Nation River is a river in Eastern Ontario, Canada. It springs from forests and marshes located north of Brockville and it flows northeast to empty into the Ottawa River north of Plantagenet. Shows the river's course highlighted on a t ...
.
In the early 1900, the Cobb Lake Drainage Scheme reduced a large area covered by water to a tiny little creek. The goal of the project (which cost 60 000$ at the time) was to expend agricultural production and to allow farmers to sow at an earlier date the flooded part of their farms.
Nowadays, Cobbs Lake is a large shallow lake which forms around the creek during the spring thaw. Fields are found around the lake, and these fields are flooded during the early spring expanding the lake even more. This causes problems for local residents since it also floods nearby side roads. Thousands of
migrating snow geese,
Canada geese, and many
dabbling duck
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s, such as
northern shovelers and
pintails, stop over in this location during the spring. The heavy clay soils of the region were deposited by the
Champlain Sea
The Champlain Sea (french: Mer de Champlain) was a prehistoric inlet of the Atlantic Ocean into the North American continent, created by the retreating ice sheets during the closure of the last glacial period. The inlet once included lands in ...
, a shallow arm of the
Atlantic which extended into this region at the end of the last
ice age.
Course
The river begins at a
field in
geographic
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Clarence Township
in the city of
Clarence-Rockland
Clarence-Rockland is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell on the Ottawa River. Clarence-Rockland is located immediately to the east of Ottawa and is considered part of the Prescott and Russell County.
...
and heads southwest, then turns southeast and passes under a former
Canadian Pacific Railway
The Canadian Pacific Railway (french: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) , also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadi ...
line, today the
Prescott and Russell Recreational Trail
The Prescott-Russell Recreational Trail is a long rail trail in Prescott-Russell, Ontario, Canada, maintained by the county of Prescott-Russell. The trail begins in the village of Saint-Eugène and goes to the eastern boundary of the City of ...
.
It briefly passes through the southwest corner of geographic North Plantagenet Township
in the municipality of
Alfred and Plantagenet, then enters geographic South Plantagenet township
in the municipality of
The Nation and reaches its mouth at the South Nation River near the community of Pendleton. The South Nation River flows via the
Ottawa River
The Ottawa River (french: Rivière des Outaouais, Algonquin: ''Kichi-Sìbì/Kitchissippi'') is a river in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. It is named after the Algonquin word 'to trade', as it was the major trade route of Eastern ...
to the
Saint Lawrence River.
References
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See also
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List of rivers of Ontario
This is the list of rivers which are in and flow through Ontario. The watershed list includes tributaries as well.
Dee River, flows between Three Mile Lake and Lake Rosseau.
List of rivers arranged by watershed Hudson Bay
Atlantic Ocean
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Rivers of Ontario
Landforms of the United Counties of Prescott and Russell