The review provides insight into the range of channel dynamics that can be expected along the lower reach of the river at the outlet to Lake Ontario and the river’s history of modification. [...] FIGURE B Expansion Plan for the Town of Port Credit in 1846 (Heritage Mississauga 2018) Continued expansion of the Town of Port Credit and harbour occurred throughout the 1900s, with significant alterations to the shoreline of the Credit River channel, removal of the barrier bar, and widening of the river mouth at the lake shore from the original canal used in the 1800s (Figure C; GRA 2019, Herita. [...] The sand bars at the mouth of the river had either receded or were further inundated in the 1946 photograph, and the wetted opening to the lake between the bars was 37 m wide. [...] Observed evidence of aggradation included silt deposition at the toe of the banks and the presence of the marsh upstream of the train bridge. [...] The south bridge abutment is approximately 3.9 to 7.9 m from the 50-year water level, with the upstream end of the abutment close to the shoreline due to an existing notch in the bank and the skew of the abutment.
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