Watershed Description and CharacteristicsSouth Georgian Bay-Lake Simcoe Watershed Description
The South Georgian Bay-Lake Simcoe Watershed Region contains four watersheds and spans over 10,000 km2, from the Oak Ridges Moraine in the south to the Canadian Shield in the north and is comprised of the Black-Severn, Lake Simcoe, Nottawasaga Valley and Severn Sound watersheds. The region contains portions of the Niagara Escarpment, Oak Ridges Moraine, Oro Moraine, Peterborough Drumlin Fields, Simcoe Uplands and Lowlands and the Canadian Shield. The region include fifty-two municipalities and three First Nations communities with over 200 municipal supply wells, 16 municipal surface water intakes, and more than 50,000 private wells. The region is very complex and diverse in terms of geology, physiology, population, and development pressures, with a multiplicity of existing water uses including drinking water supply, recreation, irrigation, agriculture, commercial and industrial uses, as well as ecosystem needs.
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