Darlington Creek (french: ruisseau Darlington) is a

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in the municipality of

Clarington Clarington (2021 population 101,427) is a lower-tier municipality in the Regional Municipality of Durham in Ontario, Canada. It was incorporated in 1973 as the town of Newcastle with the merging of the town of Bowmanville, the Village of Newcastl ...

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, Canada. It is a tributary of

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and is located in

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Darlington Township, after which it is named.

Course

Darlington Creek begins at an unnamed field at the west edge of the local Rundle Road at an elevation of and heads southwest, under Durham Highway 2, then south, parallel to

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. It heads southeast, passes under the

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, and the

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main lines, then turns south, and reaches its mouth at

. Lake Ontario flows via the

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to the

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Watershed

Groundwater discharge from the bluffs left from

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feed the headwaters of Darlington Creek. The watersheds of four other watercourses border the creek. The longest,

Bowmanville Creek Bowmanville Creek (french: ruisseau Bowmanville) is a stream in the municipality of Clarington, Regional Municipality of Durham in south-central Ontario, Canada. It flows from the Oak Ridges Moraine to Lake Ontario at Bowmanville. The creek is und ...

, to the east, has its headwaters in the

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. The other three watersheds are Tooley Creek, Farewell Creek, and Westside Creek.

References

{{reflist Rivers of the Regional Municipality of Durham