Cherry Valley Lions Memorial Park Boat Launch Dock

Tributary entering SE End of East Lake

Cherry Valley, Ontario, Canada

Slow moving creek that feeds into the SE end of East Lake in Cherry Valley. It is an area of marshland but water here is deep enough for a public boat launch and dock where we do our testing. It is known at the Lions Memorial Park. Water feeding this small creek / river comes from a great distance across the southern end of Prince Edward County, enter East Lake which then flows out into Lake Ontario via the Outlet River at Sandbanks Provincial Park at the western end of East Lake.

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Don Ross

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Hazy day with calm winds. No rain in past 24 hours. Red winged blackbirds all over the place in the marsh and some bugs out & about too. Fisherman had just come in to dock up. Got talking with some local folks here who were interested in what our tests were about so gave them some info and the card to look us up online.

24 Apr 14:50 by Don Ross

Sunny and calm day with no rain over past 24 hours. Already the county is showing signs of low snow melt and low water levels...ominous sign for summer unless we get a really wet spring in April. Lots of ducks, geese and swans out on East Lake where the river empties into the lake. Woodpeckers and songbirds can be heard here today loud and clear.

21 Mar 14:10 by Don Ross

Hazy day and not very windy at all. No rain in past 24 hours. Very quiet here today with none of the usual red-winged blackbirds around or anything else. A few dozen seedling trees have been planted nearby recently so hope most of them make it through their first winter here.

05 Nov 14:30 by Don Ross

Pair of swans leaving as I biked in to the dock area. Quite windy and overcast with stormy looking sky. Lots of rain ( about 30 MM ) in past 24 hours and around 80MM total over past 3-4 days in this region of the county.

02 Oct 12:55 by Don Ross

Partly cloudy and windy with no rain in past 24 hours. Red winged blackbirds here in the marsh, as always, along with dragonflies. Some turtles jumped into the water from a dock downstream that they’d been sunning themselves on. Boat being launched as I was leaving so talked with them about WR and gave them an info card to follow up online if they wanted to.

20 Aug 15:40 by Don Ross

No rain in past 24 hours. Saw schools of minnows in the water, dragonflies, waterbugs, red-winged blackbirds and other songbirds. Some algae clumps floating on the surface here and there.

25 Jun 14:25 by Don Ross

Hazy day with medium winds. No rain in past 24 hrs. Dock and boat launch has now been re-opened after closure due to Covid-19 restrictions. Lots of red winged blackbirds and some hawks flying overhead. Few squirrels running around.

19 May 13:40 by Don Ross

Bit overcast and very windy. No rain in past 24 hours. 4 Canada Geese on the river. Boat launch still iced over but river is open and flowing well.

09 Mar 14:10 by Don Ross

No Rain in past 24 hours. Few birds seen flying overhead and some heard in the rushes. Good current on the stream.

06 Nov 13:00 by Don Ross

No rainfall in past 24 hours. Overcast right now and quite windy. Water levels have receded enough now that the dock is no longer submerged and access to the boat launch and dock is back to normal. Lots of monarch and brown spotted butterflies, dragonflies, moths and small fish seen in the water. Some birds heard in the bullrushes, likely red-winged blackbirds. 2 kayakers coming ashore as I was finishing up. They live nearby and I talked about our testing and gave them a card to go onto the site for more info.

23 Aug 14:05 by Don Ross