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The Elk River is a 220-kilometre (140 mi) long river, [1] in the southeastern Kootenay district of the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its drainage basin is 4,450 square kilometres (1,720 sq mi) in area. [ 1 ]
The valley features a diverse topography, including low-lying wetlands, mixed grassland-forest areas, and steep, forested uplands. The Elk River meanders 220 kilometers through the valley, connecting with Lake Koocanusa and the Kootenay River near the Montana border. [1]
Highway 43, the Elk Valley Highway, is the easternmost spur off of the British Columbia segment of the Crowsnest Highway (), in the Regional District of East Kootenay.The highway, which is two lanes, starts in Sparwood, and travels 35 km (22 mi) north along the Elk River to the community of Elkford, where a connection to Elk Lakes Provincial Park, on the border with Alberta, is located.
The Elk Lakes sit approximately two miles from the border between the Provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. Upper Elk Lake is the headwaters of the Elk River. The lakes and their immediate surroundings accordingly mark the northernmost portion of the Elk Valley and are protected as Elk Lakes Provincial Park. [1]
Selenium concentrations in water entering Lake Koocanusa have been increasing for decades, and studies have shown it’s coming from coal mines in the Elk River valley of British Columbia. The Elk ...
The city of Fernie, BC seen from Three Sisters mountain. Fernie is the only city-class municipality in Canada that is fully encircled by the Rocky Mountains.The townsite was laid out in the crook of a doglegged glacial valley that today is drained by the Elk River.
Although originally valuable minerals such as gold and silver were unearthed, today coal is the primary resource extracted from underground. Conventional coal deposits underlie much of the East Kootenay, especially in the Elk River valley which is home to the Elk Valley Coalfield, [103] and the Crowsnest Coalfield in the Purcell Mountains. [104]
Sparwood is a district municipality in the Canadian province of British Columbia.It is the second-largest community on the Elk River.. Located approximately 30 kilometres from Fernie, the District Municipality of Sparwood has approximately 4,200 residents.