Shadow Lake (Kawartha Lakes)
{{Short description|Lake in southern Ontario, Canada}}
{{About|a lake in the Kawarthas|the 1999 Canadian television movie|Joy Tanner}}
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| location = Kawartha Lakes, Ontario
| group = Kawartha Lakes
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| part_of = Lake Ontario drainage basin
| inflow = Gull River
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Shadow Lake is a lake in the city of Kawartha Lakes in Central Ontario, Canada.{{cite web|url= http://www.gisapplication.lrc.gov.on.ca/Geonames/Index.html?site=Geographic_Names&viewer=Geonames&locale=en-US |title= Ontario Geonames GIS (on-line map and search)|publisher= Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry|date= 2014|access-date= 2020-08-25}}{{cite web|url= http://atlas.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html |title= Toporama (on-line map and search)|work= Atlas of Canada|publisher= Natural Resources Canada|access-date= 2020-08-25}}{{cite map|url= http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/AssetFactory.aspx?did=6576 |title= Restructured municipalities - Ontario map #5|year= 2006|series= Restructuring Maps of Ontario|publisher= Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing|accessdate= 2020-08-25}}{{cite map|url= http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/publications/official-road-map/pdfs/map-5.pdf |format= PDF|title= Map 5|series= Official road map of Ontario|publisher= Ministry of Transportation of Ontario|scale= 1 : 700,000|date= 2018-01-01|accessdate= 2020-08-25}} With an area of {{convert|356.8|ha}} and an elevation of {{convert|259|m}}, it is the second lake upstream of the mouth of the Gull River, and is in the Lake Ontario drainage basin.
Geography
Shadow Lake has an area of {{convert|356.8|ha}} and lies at an elevation of {{convert|259|m}}. The maximum depth of the lake is {{convert|22|m}}.
The primary inflow is the Gull River, at the northwest and arriving from the community of Norland, which accounts for 98% of the {{convert|786|e6m3|adj=on}} inflow into the lake. There are three unnamed secondary inflows. The primary outflow, at the south, is also the Gull River, which flows south through two rapids, known locally as "the chute", to Silver Lake.Shadow Lake and Silver Lake Management Plan (2019), p 15. It continues to the mouth of the Gull River at Balsam Lake, and then via the main Kawartha Lakes chain, the Otonabee River and the Trent River to the Bay of Quinte on Lake Ontario.
Recreation
Boating is possible upstream to a dam at Norland; and downstream through Silver Lake to a dam at the community of Coboconk, though low and high water flow situations can make the latter passage hazardous.
See also
References
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- {{cite web|url= https://www.kawarthaconservation.com/en/resources/Lake-Management-Plans/ShadowLakeAndSilverLakeManagementPlan2019.pdf |format= PDF|title= Shadow Lake and Silver Lake Management Plan|publisher= Kawartha Conservation|date= 2019|access-date= 2020-08-25}}