The Sydenham River is a river in southwestern Ontario, Canada. This river flows southwest from its source west of London, Ontario and empties into Lake Saint Clair. The length of the river is 100 kilometres and it drains a watershed of approximately 2700 square kilometres.
Because this river flows through a large agricultural area, its waters collect silt and fertilizer runoff. In spite of this, the river provides habitat for 80 fish species and 34 species of freshwater mussels; these include five mussel species considered as "endangered" nationally and two fish species and one turtle species,the eastern spiny softshell turtle, considered to be "threatened".
The river was named after Lord Sydenham, governor of Canada from 1839 to 1841.
External Links
- http://www.sydenhamriver.on.ca/
- http://sydenhamdiscovery.ca/ Sydenham River Recovery Team
- http://www.scrca.on.ca/ Saint Clair Conservation Region