Creek ? to right of Clearville boat ramp Lake Erie( directly behind pavillion in the centre walk straight to tree at creek)
Ontario, Canada
This is the creek runs from inland to Lake Erie .Follow Clearville camp sign from HWY 3 down road pass campground on left and park besides the pavillion on your right . We located from back of pavillion centre point and walked straight across to the tree on the creek edge. Our testing was done directly in line with tree from shore(its to steep otherwise).You can see the creek where it breach's the sandy beach and enters Lake Erie. It was not breaching today , maybe an 8 ft sand across
Location created by
Rick Sowinski Maggie Jones
- Group: Water Rangers and Freshwater Alliance : Lake Erie Guardians
- Site ID: 2
- Lat: 42.4523876
- Lng: -81.6993141
- Waterbody Type: Creek
- Timezone: America/Toronto
Latest photos
On the water surface was,natural debris,foam ,.
In the immediate surrounding -no sign s of discharge.
Evidence of water use- fishing,as grass trampled down to access water.
Algae-No
Water flow- no but wind blowing upstream.
Water level -average.
Water colour-brown.
Water clarity-opaque.
Odour-none.
Water temp-24.9*C
There were boaters lined up at ramp,pavillion was full of people,couple atv's drove down road to beach
Some garbage again left.
On water surface was natural debrisand foam.
No discharges into water noticed.
Evidence of water usage by fishermen,swimming,boating.And some garbage again at test site.
No alage.
Water was still.
Water level was high,could not do secchi disk due to over growth access.
Water colour was brown.
Water clarity was opaque.
No odour
Water level was high but went down some.
Water flow was slow.
Water colour was brown and clarity was opaque.
Water had no odour. Water had natural debris,alittle foam,no algae
No signs of discharge
Signs of people (garbage) Few boaters out and parked at ramp.
Water level high
Water flow slow .breached beach
Water clour brown
Water had no odour
Water had natural debris ,branches
Park had lots of people enjoying activities, picnicing ,bbqing , sitting by beach, someone flying a big kite. It was nice to see people enjoying.
The water had natural debris on it ,sticks ,ect
No evidences of water usage other than the burn area's pictured
No algae
Waterflow was steady
Water level still low,but had breached the beach after meandering along 100ft to the east
Water colour was green
Water clarity was opaque
No road salt testing here ,no winter maint
Ice off
We had to do our testing today as we were not going to be available on our regular assigned date and time .
There were no people ,animals ,birds, insects ect.
The creek itself was frozen across, thus no water samples could be taken (bank to steep to navigate and break ice)
We did include pictures .The lake had no ice except remnant's on shore . The water from creek did slightly breach the beach into the Lake Erie .
My brother and his step son both from Taiwan helped in testing today
On the way in we saw a big hawk. It had dark spots on white feathers on its neck and breast and head. Bigger than most Red Tailed hawks we generally see in area. Wasn't the Bald Eagle unless very young still? We do have the Bald Eagles in the area since being reintroduced in late 1996 ? No ice on creek and maybe 10 metres of pack ice on shoreline Lake Erie.
There was no natural debris on water
no immediate discharge
no evidence of using
no algae
water flow was steady
water level still low but lots of rain and melting snow running into creek
water was brown
water colour was cloudy
water had no odour
When we were driving in we passed a man riding a horse down road. At parking lot there was 2 horse trailers and 2 other cars which had families with the kids playing in playground behind pavillion and some coming up from lake with little pails. It was noticably warmer here than at test site #1 by 3*C . No road salt testing here as its a no winter maintenance road.
*DISSOLVED OXYGEN TEST was not recorded due to me putting amploule into container with other discarded test mat'l before we had taken the reading(it was not safe enough to get another sample due to rain making shoreline slope to slippery to access again.
Natural debris in water
Water mostly ice covered thinly
No algae
Water flow was still
Water level looked lower than last months testing level (banks are muddy for about 3M-5M )
Water was brown color
Water was cloudy
No odour
With the drop in water level we could barely reach water from test location. Might have to walk around to outlet into Lake Erie if possible and walk up to creek if it hasn't breached the beach
There was a juice box container on ground near creek (evidence of people)
And there was 1 car in parking lot when we arrived (2 people walking )
Lake was quite rough ,big waves crashing on shore. It was loud ,windy 14 KM/H, N/E . the temp was overcast and about 9*C . There was natural debris in creek (leaves ,apples ,sticks). There were lots of birds singing. Lots of little fish flies near shore.