Cooksville Creek is a short
stream
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in
Mississauga
Mississauga is a Canadian city in the province of Ontario. Situated on the north-western shore of Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, it borders Toronto (Etobicoke) to the east, Brampton to the north, Milton to the northwest, ...
,
Regional Municipality of Peel in the
Greater Toronto Area
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of
Ontario
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, Canada.
It begins near Bristol Road West and
Hurontario Street and flows south to
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 (state), New York. The Canada–United Sta ...
at R.K McMilian Park near
Lakeshore Road and
Cawthra Road. The community of
Cooksville is located on the west bank of the creek near Hurontario Street and
Dundas Street
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East. The creek is surrounded mostly by residential homes and a few parks:
* R.K. McMilian Park
* Camilla Park
* Cooksville Park
* R. Jones Park
* Mississauga Valley Park
* Stonebrook Park
* Woodington Green
* Kingsbridge Common
The
drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...
runs for , is about wide, has a total area of ,
and takes excess water from sanitary and
storm sewers
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.
94% of the drainage basin is built over, and only 6% is open space.
References
Tributaries of Lake Ontario
Rivers of Mississauga
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