Stony Lake (Ontario)

White Lake Indian River → → Rice Lake

Stony Lake is a lake in Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada.

The lake is the easternmost of the Kawartha Lakes and is part of the Trent -Severn Waterway. It is divided into an eastern part of the Upper Stony Lake, and the actual Stony Lake. In the south of Clear Lake closes in to the Hells Gate.

The waters of the westerly Lower Buckhorn Lake flows to the Stony Lake on the smaller Lovesick Lake. It flows through the locks at Burleigh Falls Lock # 28 The difference in height is 7.3 m.

Another important tributaries form the north leading into the lake Eels Creek and Jack Creek.

The main outflow of Stony Lake via the Clear Lake, the Katchewanooka Lake, the Otonabee River to Rice Lake and on over the Trent River to Lake Ontario.

Another outflow via the Gilchrist Bay Dam and the Indian River also on Rice Lake.

Name

Stony Lake was named by early European settlers as " Salmon Trout Lake ". The lake belongs to the classical Ontario " cottage country", which is visited by many people in the summer, with year-round settle down more and more on the lakeshore. Furthermore, the lake of boats that travel the Trent -Severn Waterway, and sport fishermen is driven. The fish caught in the lake include smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, walleye and muskellunge

Geography

Stony Lake is located in Peterborough County, about 2 hours northeast of Toronto. The lake has a length of about 15 km, a width of 1.5 km at an altitude of 234 m. With the Clear Lake it forms together a 28- km ² water surface with a plurality of islands and islets.

Geology

Geologically the Kawartha Lakes are on the border of two important landscapes. Like many other lakes in Ontario was the lake during and after the last ice age. The lake borders the Canadian Shield and the landscape of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence lowlands. In the north of the lake occurs rugged granite rock of the Canadian Shield, while the lake in the south is surrounded by a hilly heavily wooded landscape.