Cooksville Creek is a short

stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...

Mississauga Mississauga ( ), historically known as Toronto Township, is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is situated on the shores of Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, adjoining the western border of Toronto. With a popul ...

, Regional Municipality of Peel in the

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, Canada. It begins near Bristol Road West and Hurontario Street and flows south to

Lake Ontario Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the U.S. state of New York. The Canada–United States border sp ...

at R.K McMilian Park near Lakeshore Road and

Cawthra Road Cawthra is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * John Cawthra (1789–1851), merchant, distiller and political figure in Upper Canada * Joseph Cawthra (1759–1842), Canadian merchant and politician *Joseph Hermon Cawthra Joseph ...

. The community of Cooksville is located on the west bank of the creek near Hurontario Street and

Dundas Street Dundas Street is a major historic arterial road in Ontario, Canada. The road connects the city of Toronto with its western suburbs and several cities in southwestern Ontario. Three provincial highways— 2, 5, and 99—followed long sectio ...

East. The creek is surrounded mostly by residential homes and a few parks: * R.K. McMilian Park * Camilla Park * Cooksville Park * R. Jones Park * Mississauga Valley Park * Stonebrook Park * Woodington Green * Kingsbridge Common The

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, t ...

runs for , is about wide, has a total area of , and takes excess water from sanitary and

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. 94% of the drainage basin is built over, and only 6% is open space.

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Tributaries of Lake Ontario Rivers of Mississauga {{Ontario-river-stub