St George Residence

WelcomeKettle Creek Conservation Authority is one of 36 conservation authorities in Ontario. A conservation authority's jurisdiction is based on a watershed or the area of land that drains into a certain body of the water.The watershed is hourglass in shape and drains 520 square kilometres of land in the heart of the Carolinian Zone on the north shore of Lake Erie. Kettle Creek outlets to Lake Erie at Port Stanley at an elevation of 166 metres above sea level. This represents an elevation drop of about 141 metres from its watershed height to the average Lake Erie water level, approximately 1.75 metres per kilometre. This steep drop in elevation results in flash flooding and a high degree of erosion. In many instances the bed of the stream is more than 30 metres below the level of the surrounding land.The population of the Kettle Creek watershed in 2001 was approximately 44,406, distributed between an urban core in the City of St. Thomas and a rural periphery in the Township of Malahide, Municipality of Central Elgin, Township of Southwold, Township of Middlesex Centre and Township of Thames Centre, and the southern, mostly rural portion of the City of London