Barrie Creeks, Lovers Creek, and Hewitt's Creek Subwatershed Plan

The Barrie Creeks, Lovers Creek and Hewitt’s Creek Subwatershed Plan
Unlike the Barrie Creeks subwatershed, the largest land use in the Lovers Creek subwatershed
is tied between natural heritage features (35%) and intensive and non-intensive agriculture
(34%). There is a much smaller percentage of urban land use (21%) than in the Barrie Creeks
subwatershed. Other land uses occupying smaller areas include manicured open space (1%),
golf courses (2%) and rural development (2%).
Figure 2-6: Land use distribution within the Lovers Creek subwatershed.
Within the Hewitt’s Creek subwatershed the largest land use is intensive and non-intensive
agriculture, composing 52% of the area. This is followed by natural heritage features (21%) and
urban land use (19%), with small amounts of land residential (1%) and manicured open space
(1%).
Figure 2-7: Land use distribution within the Hewitt’s Creek subwatershed.
The distributions of land uses within the three subwatersheds can be seen in Figure 2-8.
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