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The Streams of Balla-Musselman WHERE NEXT 5 theSTREAMS of Balla-Musselman A recent Council report about watercourse fields south of Brown Hill. The Black River becomes more organized and cuts across Mill naming spiked my wander-lust curiosity. The flows over the Baldwin Dam within sight Run Golf Club, Siloam, Grangeways RV Park, streams of Whitchurch terminate either to of Highway 48 and then meanders through Udora, and Pefferlaw on its way to Lake Simcoe, the north or south, depending which side of Sutton and Briars Golf Club before dumping approximately 10 kilometers east of where the Bloomington Road you are on, which is rough- into Lake Simcoe just east of Jackson's Point. Black River terminates. The Pefferlaw River ly the water divide of the Oak Ridges Moraine. The origin of the Pefferlaw River is more accommodates much motorized boat naviga- Water flows downhill from this east-west gla- the result of field run-off on the east side of tion below the dam in Pefferlaw. cially dumped gravel pile to either the north Ballantrae Golf Club, across Ninth Line and Without the waters generated by the Balla- or south. Those to the south flow into the circumventing Lake Woods Drive. Once on the Mussleman Plateau atop the Moraine, perhaps Rouge River (Bruce, Ratcliffe, Willowgrove, other side of York Durham Line, the Pefferlaw Lake Simcoe would be far shallower. or Little Rouge Creeks) or into Duffins Creek (Stouffville and West Reesor Creeks), but that's another story. This story is the story about the streams Simcoe that are born in Ballantrae/Mussleman's Lake area. These are no small fries on the impor- Lake tance scale. The Balla-Mussleman Plateau Pefferlaw marks the highest elevations atop the moraine Sutton in Whitchurch-Stouffville, ranging from 340- 370 metres above sea level. From there it is a steady descent to either Vandorf (292 m.), Cedar Valley (275 m.), Mount Albert (257 m.) iver R and Siloam (286 m.). iver Three major river watersheds that flow into R Lake Simcoe are born on the Balla-Mussleman Keswick Plateau: East Holland River, Black River and Brown Pefferlaw River. The East Holland flows out of Hill Zephyr Musselman's Lake to the west, and is probably the most impactful locally. It and its tributar- iver R efferlaw ies cross Vandorf Sideroad no less than eight lack P B times; no wonder that the Vandorf Sideroad environs sometimes looks more liquid than olland Mount Albert solid. H Queensville After passing the Whitchurch-Stouffville ast Museum and through Vandorf Park, the East E reek Uxbridge Holland Holland River forms major greenways along a Landing C north-south axis through Aurora, Newmarket Sharon and Holland Landing. Finally, the brown sedi- Vivian ivian ment-laden brown water of East Holland River Hall V meets the dark waters of the Holland River Cedar Tract Valley just before emptying into Cook's Bay of lower Balla-Musselman Lake Simcoe. Newmarket Ballantrae Plateau The Black River is born in two areas of Mussleman's Lake W-S north Ballantrae. The main branch flows out Museum of a subdivision along Ballantrae Rd., and then through the Hall Tract of the York Regional Aurora N E A I Forest, and the centre of Cedar Valley. Vivian O R S M Creek forms the east branch of Black River, G E I D flowing past Taber Farms and Dynamic R A K Greens Wheatgrass near St. Johns Sideroad O on its way through Vivian and Mount Albert. Stouffville The two branches come together in farm .
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