Kootenay Lake # # b Eagle Nest Lake PURCELL WILDERNESS CONSERVANCY CORRIDOR PROTECTED Bonny Gem, Lake Walton Lake 0 GOAT RANGE PARK ee Clute Lake Mirror Lake Josephine Lake Fishermaiden Lake Cr e e k sh wa D ry k re e ld sC H ugga rd C ree k ee WASA LAKE PARK Wasa Lake Ta Ta Lake Sowerby Lake Hunters Lake Water for the Town of Creston is sourced from Arrow Creek. The Arrow Creek Watershed is part of the Kootenay Lake Watershed. C re e k Arrow Creek Elevation Profile Hahas Lake Berglien Lake he Saugum Lake #Virgil Mtn ner Cr e 1,900 ek 1,800 1,700 1,600 1,500 1,400 1,300 1,200 1,100 W ynn b re e R ive r # Mill Lake Nelson Kootenay White Boar Lake Ailsa Lake at Go KOKANEE CREEK PARK Creston R iv er ek b D o dd s Cr e ek Elizabeth Lake C amp R u n 10,000 Rivers FIRE KIANUKO PARK b PARK GROHMAN NARROWS Community Watershed Domestic Watershed Glaciers Lakes BC Parks and protected areas Kootenay Lake DREWRY POINT PARK Mt Elise # Lost Lake Siwash Lake Kootenay Lake Barrett Lake Marble Lake Grady Lake Leach Lake Elmo LakeDevils Hole Lake Reno Mtn Salmo # Fruitvale Three Sisters LakeArkansas Lake Panther Lake # ERIEbCREEK PARK Blizzard Mtn b Creston Stott Pk Meadow Lake www.wildsight.ca Know Your Watershed is developed and delivered in co-operation with Wildsight education team King Lake # Rosebud Lake # Cranbrook YAHK PARK # # Lost Mtn # Nelson Waldie Lake Nevada MtnMt Waldie b b Kootenay Lake Watershed is within the Columbia Basin in southeastern BC ¹ RYAN PARK Silver Lake Mt Kelly Golden Duck Lake Six Mile Slough Porcupine Lake #Grassy Mtn Erie Lake Cooper Lake Yeko Lake KOOTENAY LAKE PARK - MIDGE CREEK SITE Württemberg Lake Qua Lake 26,000 Paved Roads Moyie Lake Cottonwood Lake 24,000 National Parks Hiawatha Lake MOYIE LAKE PARK Monroe Lake Richmond Lake 22,000 Ground Water Aquifer WATERWORKS Negro Lake 20,000 COMMERCIAL POWER LOCKHART BEACH PARKLOCKHART CREEK PARK 18,000 Gravel Roads AGRICULTURE FLOYD COMMUNITY WATERSHED 16,000 Other Communities DOMESTIC CAMP RUN COMMUNITY WATERSHED Kiakho Lakes Jim Smith LakePyatts Lake 14,000 Rail CONSERVATION ek C re 12,000 Transportation Mountain Peaks Water Licences Nunika Sylvan CreLake ek b New Lake Cranbrook 8,000 Communities b Pattons Lake SULLIVAN COMMUNITY WATERSHED re PILOT BAY PARKCrystal Lake WEST ARM PARK # k Hall Lake Balfour Mt Eccles nC McGregor Lake rC Six Mile Lakes St. Mary Lake 6,000 Legend RUSSELL COMMUNITY WATERSHED e las Ross Lake ps o Reade Lake 0 2,000 4,000 Elevation change in metres G Noakes Lakes Haiseldean Lake Whitelady Lake # 700 Elmer Lake Dipper Lake Oltedi LakeKOOTENAY LAKE PARK - COFFEE CREEK SITE Silvertip Lake Fraser Lake Mt Cornfield 800 om Crazy Jane LakeGibson Lake 900 Kimberley Krao LakeCODY CAVES PARK Loon Lake #Outlook Mtn Bartholomew Lake O ke l l C r e e k McGinty Lake eek Th Kokanee Lake Plaid Lake d el C r 1,000 Russell C re e k KOKANEE GLACIER PARK Boot Lake Sunset Lake Heather Lake # Wheeler Lake Tanal LakeJoker Lakes Boomerang Mtn Kaslo Lake Nalmet Lake b S i x M i le For example, the Columbia Basin, or watershed, is the large land base where all the water that falls as precipitation will eventually drain from, through a system of lakes, rivers, streams, reservoirs and glaciers, into the Columbia River. This water will eventually flow into the Pacific Ocean. Jurak Lake Fletcher Lake Maurier Lake Natanek Lake Fennell Lakes Lost Dog LakeReed Lakes A watershed is an area of land in which all rain and snow runoff and small tributaries drain into a common body of water such as a creek, river or lake. Kootenay Lake Watershed contains all the land, rivers and streams that drain into Kootenay Lake. k Lazy Lake G laWittle s ie a C r e ek r Cr Wi b c k e rj a c k C ree r Slocan Lake Cra iv e Kaslo Flint Lakes b A nch or Cree k McNair LakesEchoes Lakes k ee Silverton Keer Lake Price LakeBergstrom Lake Totem LakeST. MARY'S ALPINE PARK Mortar LakeHuggard Lake Hodgson LakesSpade Lake Bird Lakes r L G oa t R # G re Phyllodoce Lakes Bleak LakeCanning Lake Nowitka Lake Lyallii Lake KOOTENAY LAKE PARK - CAMPBELL BAY SITE Leviathan Lake Idaho Pk b C New Denver ek ad Premier Lake Canuck Lake Yankee Lake PREMIER LAKE PARK Rockbluff Lake ARROW COMMUNITY WATERSHED re yC ek c k k k Tamarack Lake DUCK COMMUNITY WATERSHED Mt Payne # Larsen Lake Johnson Lake Larchwood Lake Du ROSEBERY PARK H a l l Cr e k e Cr Milford Lake e ro w Marten Lake Weasel Lakes Bear Lake 3 Kilometres k Ar PURCELL WILDERNESS CONSERVANCY PARK KOOTENAY LAKE PARK - LOST LEDGE SITE # re B on t o nC Copper Lake Marten Mtn Mt Dolly Varden # 2 RAM CREEK ECOLOGICAL RESERVE KOOTENAY LAKE PARK - DAVIS CREEK SITE # 1 Cr Mt Stubbs Moose Lake # le Meadow Creek Barn Mtn Griswold PeakMt Christine # # #Mt Katherine v il # ea d # # Duncan Lake Meadow Mtn tc Mt Marion Ki # Basin Trust Funded by Columbia # # STAGLEAP PARK Bridal Lake Rykerts Lake Twin Lakes Boundary Lake US A NAD 1983 Albers 1:175,000 0 10 20 Map designed by Kristen Milburn Selkirk Geospatial Research Centre 22 August 2011 Kilometres 30