Crawling Valley Reservoir

Crawling Valley Reservoir
Crawling Valley Reservoir
Location	County of Newell, Alberta
Coordinates	50°54′07″N 112°21′10″W
Basin countries	Canada
Max. length	12 km (7.5 mi)
Max. width	7.2 km (4.5 mi)
Surface area	25.1 km2 (9.7 sq mi)
Average depth	5.2 m (17 ft)
Max. depth	16 m (52 ft)
Surface elevation	778 m (2,552 ft)
Settlements	Bassano
References	Crawling Valley Reservoir

Crawling Valley Reservoir, or Barkenhouse Lake, is a reservoir in Alberta. The reservoir uses the existing Crawling Valley, which was depression created as a meltwater channel created during the letting of the Laurentide ice sheet at the end of the last ice age. Construction of dams and canals began in 1983, diverting some water from the Bow River via the North Branch Canal, starting just upstream of the Bassano Dam (southwest of the town of Bassano, to fill the reservoir. The main drainage flowing from the Crawling Valley Reservoir flows through a continuation of the North Branch Canal, serving irrigation needs, with other outflow into the Matzhiwin Creek.