Cobbs Lake Creek
Cobbs Lake Creek is a creek in Prescott and Russell County in eastern Ontario, Canada, which empties into the South Nation River.
| Cobbs Lake Creek | |
|---|---|
Location of the mouth of Cobbs Lake Creek in southern Ontario | |
| Location | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Ontario |
| Region | Eastern Ontario |
| County | Prescott and Russell |
| Municipalities | The Nation, Alfred and Plantagenet, Clarence-Rockland |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | field |
| • location | Clarence-Rockland |
| • coordinates | 45°32′04″N 75°09′13″W |
| • elevation | 84 m (276 ft) |
| Mouth | South Nation River |
• location | The Nation |
• coordinates | 45°26′38″N 75°03′01″W |
• elevation | 46 m (151 ft) |
| Basin features | |
| River system | Saint Lawrence River drainage basin |
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 ducks, 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, a shallow arm of the Atlantic which extended into this region at the end of the last ice age.