Bowmanville Creek
Bowmanville Creek is a watercourse in Durham County, that flows from its headwaters in the Oak Ridges Moraine to its mouth on Lake Ontario, at Bowmanville, Ontario.
It borders Oshawa Creek, and Soper Creek, to the west and east, which have their headwaters in the Oak Ridges Moraine. Between Bowmanville Creek and Oshawa Creek, there are five smaller creeks, Farewell Creek, Robinson Creek, Tooley Creek, Darlington Creek and Westside Creek.
Bowmanville Creek has been dammed in several places. About one km north of Lake Ontario is the former Goodyear dam, originally built to provide electricity for a factory. This dam was a barrier to fish migration, and until the construction of a fish ladder trout and salmon were lifted over the dam byvolunteers and conservation workers. A little further north, in what is now downtown Bowmanville, a dam provided water power for the Vanstone Mill until it was washed out in a storm in 1986.
