Katchewanooka Lake

{{Short description|Lake in Ontario, Canada}}

{{Infobox body of water

| name = Katchewanooka Lake

| image = Lake katchewanooka (4289585525).jpg

| alt = A photograph of Lake Katchwanooka

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| location = Peterborough County, Ontario

| group = Kawartha lakes

| coords = {{coord|44|27|N|78|16|W|type:waterbody_region:CA|display=inline,title}}

| type =

|pushpin_map=Ontario

| inflow = Stoney Lake

| outflow = Otonabee River

| catchment =

| basin_countries = Canada

| length = {{convert|5|mi|abbr=on}}

| width = {{convert|0.5|mi|abbr=on}}

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| max-depth = {{convert|50|ft|abbr=on}}

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| elevation = {{convert|233|m|abbr=on}}

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Image:Kawartha Lakes w legend.png

Katchewanooka Lake is one of the Kawartha lakes in south-central Ontario, Canada. It is about {{convert|5|mi|km}} long and {{convert|.5|mi|km}} wide. The Trent Severn Waterway flows through Lake Katchewanooka into the Otonabee River at its outlet just north of Lakefield, continuing southwest through Little Lake in Peterborough and on into Rice Lake.{{cite web

|url=http://www.cruising.ca/trent/docs/L-katch.html

|title=Katchewanooka Lake

|publisher=Trent Severn Cruising Guide

|accessdate=2009-09-11}}

Lakefield College School lies on the east side of the lake.{{cite web

|url=http://www.lcs.on.ca/

|title=Lakefield College School

|publisher=Lakefield College School

|accessdate=2009-09-11}}

Susanna Moodie, author of Roughing it in the Bush (1852), lived on a farm on the lake in the 1830s.{{cite web

|url=http://www.goldiproductions.com/thecanadasite/places/houses5_moodie.html

|title=Susanna Moodie Homestead, Lake Katchowanook, Canada West c.1854

|publisher=Goldi Productions

|accessdate=2009-09-11}}

Canadian author Cathy Pelletier aka K. C. McKinnon was inspired by this lake to write her novel "Dancing at the Harvest Moon" (1997).

Although water levels in this lake and others in the Kawartha Lakes system are controlled to some extent by locks and dams, the lakeshore is vulnerable to flooding during the spring run-off period.{{cite web

|url=http://www.mykawartha.com/news/article/28465

|title=Flood warning remains in effect but water levels have dropped

|date=2008-04-17

|publisher=Metroland Media Group

|accessdate=2009-09-11}}