Bowmanville Creek
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| Bowmanville Creek ruisseau Bowmanville | |
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_004.jpg) Creek in Bowmanville, 2023. | |
  Location of the mouth of Bowmanville Creek in Southern Ontario | |
| Location | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Ontario |
| Regional Municipality | Durham |
| Municipality | Clarington |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Confluence of three unnamed streams |
| • location | Enfield |
| • coordinates | 44°01′25″N 78°49′50″W / 44.02361°N 78.83056°W[1] |
| • elevation | 255[2] |
| Mouth | Lake Ontario |
• location | Bowmanville |
• coordinates | 43°53′16″N 78°39′51″W / 43.88778°N 78.66417°W[3] |
• elevation | 74.1 m (243 ft)[4] |
| Basin size | 170 km2 (66 sq mi)[5] |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Lake Ontario→ Saint Lawrence River→ Gulf of Saint Lawrence |
| River system | Lake Ontario drainage basin |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Soper 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.[3][1][6][7] The creek is under the auspices of the Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority.[5]
The headwaters of Bowmanville Creek border the headwaters of Oshawa Creek (to the west) and those of its left tributary Soper Creek (to the east), the headwaters of all of which are in the Oak Ridges Moraine. Between the mouths at Lake Ontario of Oshawa Creek (to the west) and Bowmanville Creek there are five smaller creeks (from west to east): Farewell Creek, Robinson Creek, Tooley Creek, Darlington Creek and Westside Creek.[5][6] The next named watercourse to the east is Wilmot Creek.[6]
The area of the drainage basin of Bowmanville Creek is about 170 square kilometres (66 sq mi); almost all of the drainage basin is within Clarington, with the exception of a small part of the headwaters which are in the township municipality of Scugog to the north.[5]
