More than just three Rivers and a Creek.

WETLANDS

Important because they:

• recharge groundwater that feed our wells
• provide natural filtering of water therefore reducing pollutants
• provide essential habitat for wildlife and migratory birds                               
• capture and store carbon from the atmosphere

COULTERVILLE WETLAND - a Provincially Significant Wetland

• largest wetland in the immediate area
• contains 36 significant species and more than 100 other spieces
• provides permanent water flow to the Credit River along tow paths, including east into the Credit River through Osprey Valley Golf Course

TRIBUTARIES

Important because they:

• collect water from smaller streams, rain runoff and winter snowmelt, delivering the water to the main rivers and ensuring they are always flowing
• transport sediment and organic matter that supply nutrients and food for the main rivers' ecological processes

CONNECTED TO THE COULTERVILLE WETLAND

Tributary 1:

• from the weland over to and down Mississauga Road
• also captures spring runoff
• drops into the Recharge Kettle above Charleston Side Road and recharges the shallow aquifer

Tributaries 4&5:

• #5 runs from the wetland
• it joins #4 on the east side of Main Street then runs through Osprey Valley Golf Course and flows into the Credit River

Tributary 8:

• from the wetland under then down Mississauga Road and across Charleston to Winston Churchill Road
• delivers water, sediment and organic material to the West Credit River