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Superior Creek was a stream draining into
Superior Creek was a stream draining into 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 ...
in the former village of Mimico
Mimico is a neighbourhood (and a former municipality) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, being located in the south-west area of Toronto on Lake Ontario. It is in the south-east corner of the former Township (and later, City) of Etobicoke, and was an in ...
, Ontario
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, Canada
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.
It was approximately 3 kilometers long, with headwaters near the present intersection of Kipling Avenue and The Queensway.
The lower reaches of the creek had become polluted, and were buried in a sewer in 1915.
In 1954, citizens of Mimico living in newly built houses near the upper reaches complained that the creek flooded, and lobbied to have the creek replaced by storm sewers
A storm drain, storm sewer (United Kingdom, U.S. and Canada), surface water drain/sewer (United Kingdom), or stormwater drain ( Australia and New Zealand) is infrastructure designed to drain excess rain and ground water from impervious surface ...
, and a study was prepared. According to ''HTO: Toronto's water from Lake Iroquois to lost rivers to low-flow toilets,'' the creek was buried around 1965.
The creek west of Superior Creek was Jackson Creek Jackson Creek may refer to:
;In Australia
*Jackson Creek (Victoria), a watercourse of the Port Phillip catchment in Victoria
;In Canada
*Jackson Creek (Alberta)
*Jackson Creek (Toronto)
*Jackson Creek (Peterborough, Ontario)
;In the United States ...
, while the creek east of Superior Creek was Mimico Creek.
See also
*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
...
References
{{Toronto Waterways Landforms of Toronto Rivers of Toronto